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Red planet rumbles: NASA's recordings of 'marsquakes' let us listen to the martian heartbeat

Author: Rebecca Allen, Swinburne Space Office Project Coordinator | Manager Swinburne Astronomy Productions, Swinburne University of Technology

The red planet. It may hold no life, but is it dead?NASA/JPL

Thanks to the audio recordings of distant rumblings on Mars released this week by NASA, we finally know what the red planet sounds like.

NASA’s InSight lander captured a range of sounds, most tantalisingly the low rumbles of “marsquakes” – seismic ripples rumbling...