Episode Title

The Sounds of Mars and the Lights of the Earliest Stars

Series Producers

Joshua Colwell, University of Central FloridaFollow
Adrienne Dove, University of Central FloridaFollow
Hannah Sargeant, University of Central FloridaFollow
James Cooney, University of Central FloridaFollow

Streaming Media

Series Title

Walkabout the Galaxy

Keywords

Mars

Disciplines

Astrophysics and Astronomy | Physics

Description

Mars has a thin atmosphere, so little changes in the weather, even breezes, make big relative changes in how sound travels. We speculate on the sounds of future baseball game on Mars before turning to a fortuitous glimpse of the light from an individual star when the universe was less than a billion years old.

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Date Created

4-6-2022

Item Type

Podcast

Type

article

Length of Episode

46:31

Recommended Citation

Colwell, Joshua; Dove, Adrienne; Sargeant, Hannah; and Cooney, James, "The Sounds of Mars and the Lights of the Earliest Stars" (2022). Walkabout the Galaxy Podcast. 199.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/walkaboutthegalaxy/199