In just a couple weeks, the Mars Perseverance Rover is going to land with a microphone. Here's what they've recorded so far

In just a couple weeks , the Mars Perseverance Rover is going to land with an instrument that surprisingly, we've never sent before, a microphone.

Sound recordings outside of Earth are actually very, very rare.

Sound is nothing more than pressure waves traveling through atoms of air.

If air did fill the solar system, the loudest thing by far would be the sun.

Venera was the first probe to enter another planet's atmosphere, the first soft landing on another planet, and the first images from the surface of another planet.

The Huygens probe that landed on Saturn 's moon Titan recorded the only sound recorded in the solar system for 30 years before Cassini in 2005 .

Cassini is arguably one of the most successful planetary missions ever, bringing with it the most stunning images ever created of Saturn .

There are several different types of moonquakes that have been measured to be about 5.5 on the Richter scale.

Astronauts who have been on the moon claimed that it sounded like a ringing bell.

Another type of sound recording that we've made out in space is something called sonification, and it's basically a way of translating image data into sound waves.