Re: mars

[Jeff Duke <jmar@bellsouth.net>]

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"Liebig, Steuart A." wrote:

> for all of you folks who would like to loop/manipulate this:
>
> Aboard NASA’s Mars Polar Lander, headed for
>                                        landing on the Red Planet on 
>Friday,
> is a tiny, $15
>                                        microphone, the same kind found in
> hearing aids. It will
>                                        capture the first sounds heard 
>from
> another planet — the
>                                        hum of the probe’s machinery, the
> soft whistling of wind,
>                                        the patter of sand grains hitting
> solar panels.
>
> guess they're gonna broadcast the loudest 10 seconds every day, get yer 
>dats
> ready . . .
>
> stig