We're Finally Sending Ears to Mars

We all love that feeling of "being there" when it comes to missions to other planets. Juno's arrival at Jupiter, New Horizons' flyby of Pluto and the daily upload of raw images from the Mars Curiosity rover makes each of us an armchair explorer of alien landscapes. But there's always been something missing. Something essential in shaping our environment -- sound. NASA recently gave the go-ahead for the Mars 2020 rover that will bristle with a new suite of science instruments including a micropho...