NASA Releases Audio of Massive 'Marsquake' Meteorite Impact.

The magnitude 4 marsquake that shook the Red Planet on December 24, 2021

And on Thursday was first discovered by NASA's Mars InSight mission.

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According to NASA, InSight's seismometer records seismic signals that are too low to be audible

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So researchers had to speed up the data 100 times to make the signals audible.

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The effects were wind-like whooshes that were amplifi ed by a substantial boom in the middle of the space track.

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NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter photographed the strike's impact on the Red Planet

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While InSight "heard" the seismic signals.

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Despite the fact that the meteoroid only measured 16 to 39 feet, it left a crater that was 492 feet across and 70 feet deep.

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Had it been any larger, it would have burned up in Earth's atmosphere.

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