NASA has captured the sound of a meteorite crashing to the ground.
NASA says in a news release that the recording combinesseismic and acoustic waves that were detected when a space rock hit Mars.
The sound starts with a rock flying through the sky and ends with a bunch of pops.
The lab reports that it was the first time the sound of a meteorite impact was captured.
You hear three loud bangs that represent different moments of the impact, such as the meteorite entering Mars' atmosphere, exploding into pieces, and hitting the ground. In deserts on Earth, lower-pitched sounds arrive before high-pitched sounds, causing the strange sound.
Scientists say the meteorite exploded into at least three pieces and left three distinct craters.
NASA says its InSight landers picked up the waves and flew over the impact site to take pictures.
There have been four meteorite impacts on Mars between August and September of this year.
The marsquakes were in the 2.0 magnitude range.
NASA says researchers have a hard time explaining why they haven't detected more impact on Mars.
There is an ample supply of space rocks to scar the planet's surface next to the main asteroid belt. NASA says that Mars' atmosphere is just 1% thicker than Earth's.
It is possible that there have been more impacts since InSight landed, but they have been mitigated by noise from wind or the changing atmosphere.
The paper states that impact sites are the clocks of the solar system.
He says that scientists can estimate the age of a planet by counting impact craters.
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