A secret message encrypted in the umbrella of perseverance ignites the Internet!

NASA scientists confirmed in a press conference that when “Perseverance” deployed its parachute as it descended through the atmosphere of Mars on February 18, a secret symbol of red and white lines crossed the sky.

Internet researchers analyzed the code six hours after learning it.

In fact, the lines radiating from the center of the parachute seemingly randomly from the concentric circles illustrate a message written in binary computer code, as Adam Stelzner, Perseverance’s chief engineer, revealed on Twitter after decoding Monday night. Each series of red and white lines represents a letter; When reading clockwise from the inner ring of the parachute to the outer ring, the code letters spell out this message: “Dare to great things.”

If that sounds familiar, it could be because the same message was written on the wall of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) headquarters in Pasadena, California, and has been the lab’s logo for years.

The outer ring of the parachute also contains a set of coordinates: 34 ° 11’58 “N by 118 ° 10’31” W – the location of the JPL headquarters in California.

At the press conference on Monday, February 22, Chief Systems Engineer Allen Chen challenged the audience to find the secret message.

“In addition to enabling amazing science, we hope that our engineering efforts will inspire others. Sometimes we leave messages in our work for others to find for this purpose, so we invite all of you to try it out and show your work,” said Chen . according to The Verge.

There are likely more codes and secret messages hidden aboard the Perseverance, most of which “will never be known, not even me,” Chen added.

Source: Live Science