The Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE) instrument being lowered into the Perseverance rover (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)

Since landing on Mars on February 18, 2021, NASA's Perseverance rover has achieved numerous "firsts," including beaming audio sounds from the Red Planet's surface. It also made history as the first spacecraft to record sounds from another spacecraft — the Ingenuity helicopter — on another planet.