The message was written in binary code, the parachute even had GPS coordinates placed on the outer rings.
The successful arrival of the Mars approach continues to captivate and generate speculation among Internet users, who remain in search of new details about the space mission.
That’s how netizens discovered that NASA had placed a “hidden” message on the Perseverance parachute.
Netizens deciphered that the red and white pattern of the parachute had not been a deliberate choice by NASA. And they detailed that in the concentric rings was a word written in binary code.
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The message was reportedly deciphered by Maxence Abela, a student at the French computer institution Epitech, and his father.
According to the student what can be read on the parachute is: “Dare mighty things”, a motto of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) which means ‘Dare to powerful things’.
Following the finding, the JPL also revealed that the outer rings of the parachute included GPS coordinates for its offices in Pasadena, California.
Audio and video
The US space agency, NASA, released on Monday the first audio of Mars, a slight wind sound captured by the Rover Perseverance, as well as the first video of the arrival of the vehicle on the red planet.
A microphone stopped working during the descent, but the Rover was able to pick up audio once it was already stopped on the surface.
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NASA engineers played a small audio recording that they say responds to a gust of wind on Mars.
“What you hear there in 10 seconds is a real gust of wind on the surface of Mars picked up by the microphone and sent back to Earth,” said Dave Gruel, Perseverance’s chief camera and microphone system engineer.
On the other hand, the high-definition video, which lasts three minutes and 25 seconds, shows the deployment of the 21.5-meter white and red parachute.
Then you see how the heat shield that protected the rover in its descent and later the arrival in the Jezero crater in the middle of a dust cloud comes off.
“These are really amazing videos,” Michael Watkins, director of NASA’s jet propulsion lab, said at a conference with reporters. “We watched them non-stop all weekend.”
“It’s the first time we’ve been able to capture an event like the arrival on Mars.”
Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA’s associate science administrator, said the video of Perseverance’s descent is “as close as one can be to landing on Mars without putting on a pressure suit.”
The Rover Perseverance was launched on July 30, 2020 and landed last Thursday on the red planet.