My Minute of News with Jeff Caplan

Meteor Mars


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If it turns out there are martians… do you want them to look like us?  Or do you want your martians with six arms and lizard heads?

I ask because we’ve just heard the first live recording of a meteor crashing into the surface of Mars.  It’d be cool if it sounded just like the meteor that exploded over the Great Salt Lake.  Remember … a month ago.  Saturday morning started with an earth shattering boom that echoed across three states.   We all wondered if it was an earthquake… or a military test… a rocket blast… or even an earthquake.

That was impressive.  But it turns out with the thin unbreathable atmosphere on Mars… a meteor blast.  This rock hurtling through the heavens at unimaginable speed toward Mars  produce a different sound than you’d expect.

The Perseverance Rover set-up a microphone on the Martian surface …and on Labor Day weekend a meteor struck roughly 100 miles away.  And while we’re all used to Star Wars version of cosmic explosions… this -for the first time ever -  is what a giant meteor sounds like when it blasts a crater into the martian surface.  You ready?

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To me… that sounds like a bubble bath in a thunderstorm.  Here it is again.


Wimpyt.  A  weak little noise indicates  sound indicates  ... if there are martians. whether they look like lizards or just like us… twhen that meteor hit…  they probably looked unimpressed

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