The Mars 2020 Rover will explore the sounds of Mars with DPA

The spacecraft that will take off in the summer of 2020 direction to the Red Planet will be equipped with omnidirectional microphones 4006 and DPA's MMA-A digital audio interface.

The Mars 2020 Rover of the NASA will take off in July/August 2020 heading to the Red Planet on a journey that will last seven months. The spacecraft is scheduled to land in February 2021 and next to it the microphones of DPA Microphones, brand that distributes SeaSound.

DPA microphones 4006 omnidirectional will be the Rover's 'ears' and an MMA-A digital audio interface will be located inside the body of the vehicle, acting as the auditory part of your most neuralgic part.

The omnidirectional microphone d:dicate 4006 of DPA will capture high quality audio, while the MMA-A digital audio interface will be used to record and send the sound to a computer through its USB connection. Both microphones will be paired with MMP-G modular active cables, which act as preamplifiers.

The Rover spacecraft is currently being assembled at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) NASA in Pasadena, California, and DPA equipment will be installed in the vehicle in early 2019.

For most of the trip, the audio equipment will be inactive, but once the Rover reaches the atmosphere of Mars, The microphones will allow the sounds of descent to be experienced from Earth.

 It is expected that the friction of the atmosphere can be heard, the Martian winds and the sounds of dust moving when the spacecraft lands.