I want color pics and I want audio. I want to hear what the red planet sounds like. Is there audible wind on Mars? Even its silence would be interesting. I’d also like to hear the sounds Curiosity makes, the sound of its motors and the sand crunching under its tires. The audio component has been completely absent on all of the Mars missions, at least that I’m aware of. Anybody know if Curiosity is outfitted with mics?
That’s interesting. I don’t know. The way to build and test such listening equipment would be via high altitude balloons; the atmospheric pressure on Mars at the surface is the same as 40 miles altitude on Earth. Probably pretty quiet, and you couldn’t use your naked ears to listen.