Episode 277
The Sounds of Mars and the Lights of the Earliest Stars
Walkabout the Galaxy · Joshua Colwell
April 6, 202246m 31s
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Show Notes
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.