Now you can hear what your voice would sound like on Mars
nypost.compeople actually can hear you scream (or sing), it turns out. Groundbreaking data collected by NASA’s Perseverance rover is able to replicate how people would sound on Mars compared to Earth.The space agency even boasts an online tool that allows Earthlings to simulate how they’d sound on the red planet from inside our homes.
That’s right: You can drop your own Mars bars in a round of interstellar karaoke.To use it, simply go to the Sounds of Mars section on NASA’s website, navigate to the “You on Mars” tab, then “click and hold the button to record your greeting,” per the site.
Finally, download the audio file to hear how your voice sounds on Mars. After testing the function ourselves, The Post can safely say that those tin cans we spoke into as a kid to replicate “Martian speak” weren’t too far off. “If you were standing on Mars, you’d hear a quieter, more muffled version of what you’d hear on Earth, and you’d wait slightly longer to hear it,” wrote NASA on their site. “Some sounds that we’re used to on Earth, like whistles, bells or bird songs, would almost be inaudible on Mars.”The findings were part of a breakthrough study that calculated the speed of sound on the red planet.To measure the speed of sound on the planet, the Perseverance rover fired a laser at a rock and recorded the noise it made on impact, per the findings unveiled at the 53rd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference.Researchers then measured the time of the laser firing against that of sound reaching the recording device and compared it to sonic data on Earth’s surface.
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