Perseverance Rover sent back the first sounds the team started naming things on Mars and there's a doomsday freezer to be buried on the moon.
NASA's perseverance Rover sent back the first laser sound from Mars. It has this laser that fires at a specific target. Basically what it does is it turns it into a cloud of vaporized rock; and that gets analyzed by instruments with cameras and spectrometers. That's pretty cool if you ask me. It sent back a recording, from the mic on the Super Cam, of it zapping its first target, Máaz. Which, fun fact, is the Navajo word for Mars. The Navajo Nation president Jonathan Nez and vice president Myron Lizer made a list of words in Navajo for the rover team to use, according to a NASA press release. I think that's so awesome I find it Native American culture really fascinating. Apparently they already have a list of 50 Navajo names to use including the translation for Perseverance itself which is "Ha'ahóni" it actually had to be taught the language, so it could recognize the landmarks that are labeled. Technology is incredible now check out the laser sound.
The noise is more like a "snap" than the typically "pew" noise you would expect. Check it out along with the first sounds and enjoy the sound of the wind on Mars.
Also, apparently there are scientists in Arizona that are making a doomsday freezer. They're referring to it as a type of "lunar arc." It's going to store genetic material from millions of different species from earth below the moon's surface in the lava tubes. It's basically a backup plan in case something really terrible happens to Earth's biodiversity. I think it's so incredible the things that they can do with science nowadays. Now, if only we could cure cancer and end hunger.
SpaceX launched their Falcon 9 rockets early this morning to send another batch of 60 Starlink internet satellites into orbit. It is a record-breaking 9th successful launch and landing attempt for the Falcon 9. It landed on top of its drone ship "of course I still love you" that's out in the Atlantic Ocean. I still think that's so cool!
You can watch the whole mission if you want, but you can check out the launch at the beginning of the video below.
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