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A NASA device designed to study seismic activity on Mars has captured the peculiar 'sound' of a meteoroid striking the Red Planet. According to a press release, the detection was made by the space agency's InSight Lander, which was deployed on Mars in 2018 in an effort to collect data on marsquakes. While the instrument was able to document a whopping 1,300 such events, astronomers behind the mission were stumped by the lack of meteoroid impacts picked up by the lander until a moment last September when a space rock finally struck the planet with a rather dramatic effect.
Listen to the sounds of meteoroid striking Mars and find out more on this story at the Coast to Coast AM website.