This recording was made by the SuperCam instrument on NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover on Feb. 19, 2021, just about 18 hours after landing on the mission’s first sol or Martian day. The rover’s mast, holding the microphone, was still stowed on Perseverance’s deck, and so the sound is muffled, a little like the sound one hears listening to a seashell or having a hand cupped over the ear. Just a little wind can be heard.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL/CNES/CNRS/ISAE-Supaero

First Audio Recording of Sounds on Mars

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The passage of time is like a ravenous hound,
It sucks the life from my body with its slavering mouth,
When the cadaver is found the stench is profound 
Because the man I once was is buried deep underground.

The passage of time is like a ravenous beast,
It’s sucks the life from out my body like it’s having a feast,
Makes a cadaver of me 
‘Cause I’m the walking dead,
Another weirdo wearing black who’s got a tortured head.

Dreaming of sunny days but they will never come,
What used to be a shining start is now a dying sun.

The passage of time is like a ravenous wolf,
It sucks the life from out my heart in a gelatinous pulp,
The cadaver is pulled up and shown as a trophy,
I’ve lived a life of weird and gnarly things - what can you show me?

The passage of time is like a ravenous lion,
It sucks the life from out my body ‘cause it’s mad and it’s violent,
It’s bad and it’s vile and the cadaver’s defiled but still I live on as a ghost because I live in denial.

Dreaming of sunny days but they will never come,
What used to be a shining start is now a dying sun.

Nemesis Chronologica

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Verse 1

The rain keeps falling down on me,
On me,
The rain keeps falling down on me,
On me.

Chorus (x 2)

Just when I thought this world was turning in my favour reality came and cut me like a razor.

Verse 2

The sun  it never shines for me,
For me,
The sun it never shines for me,
For me.

Chorus (x 2)

Just when I thought this world was turning in my favour reality came and cut me like a razor.

Verse 3

The moon jeers laughingly at me,
At me,
The moon jeers laughingly at me,
At me.

Chorus (x 2)

Just when I thought this world was turning in my favour reality came and cut me like a razor.

Verse 4

There’s no future for me,
For me,
For me,
There’s no future for me,
For me,
For me.

Apostasy

Desdenova

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