Researchers heard electric crackles on 28 hours of recordings made over two Martian years.
  • kalkulat@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 days ago

    Crackles

    By any chance could this be the crackle of little rock chips picked up by dust devils hitting the rover?

    • kalkulat@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      8 days ago

      Maybe they should release these “28 hours of microphone recordings” I can imagine that wind continually blowing across dry desert sand could generate differing charges on insulated surfaces that make little pops when they’re ‘grounded’. Hardly lightning.