NASA sending a microphone to Mars.

MARS ROCK?: NASA's newly named Mars Polar Lander, scheduled to set out for the Red Planet's South Pole next January, will carry a tiny microphone in one of its instruments that will listen for any ambient sounds at its landing site, including wind-borne dust and thunder. Privately funded by...

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