In the video, a colorful orange- and white parachute can be seen above the rover, as it helps slow down the spacecraft’s landing.
“You notice the pattern on the parachute here,” said Ellen Chen, the rover’s entry, descent and landing lead on Monday. “Specific patterns are useful to help us determine the cloaking orientation of a parachute. In addition, contrasting parts can be useful in locating different parts of a parachute as it swells.
“In addition to enabling incredible science, we hope that our efforts and our engineering can inspire others. To that end we leave our messages to others. So we invite you all to give it a shot and show your work. We invite you to come. “
Eagle Eyed Space fans challenged Chen and did a short job solving the code.
The parachute’s hidden message includes the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory motto, “Dare Mighty Things,” as well as JPL integration in Pasadena, California.
The messages were parachuted using white and orange gore, or binary code in a triangle of fabric. The interior of the parachute includes an elaborate ring of gors with the word “dare mighty things” with each word. The band around the parachute is where GPS coordinates for the JPL can be found.
The goal is borrowed from Theodore Roosevelt: “It is better to dare to do powerful things, to triumph, albeit to be replaced by failure … than to rank with the poor souls, who do not rejoice or suffer because they live.” A gray twilight that knows no victory or defeat. “
The rover was built by the team at JPL, where the mission is conducted.
Evan Clark, Rover’s systems engineer, was the mastermind behind the binary code pattern on the parachute.
It’s not the first Easter egg to be included with the Perseverance Rover, and the mission team has indicated that more will be revealed in future images returned by the Rover.
The rover contains silicon chips with the names of about 11 million people who took part in the “Send Your Name to Mars” campaign, as well as 155 essays submitted by students who entered the rover’s name contest. Patience also has a metal plate as a tribute to health care workers during epidemics.
On the deck of the rover is a symbol-filled calibration target for the head amm-z, or a rover pair of zombie cameras. The calibration target includes color switches to adjust the maro settings, but it also includes symbols including male and female, ferns, dinosaurs, rockets from Earth to Mars, a model of the inner solar system, DNA and cyanobacteria. Is one of the earliest forms of life on earth.
The goal also includes the goal of “two worlds, one beginning”, suggesting the idea that Earth and Mars were created from the same dust that revolved around the sun millions of years ago.
The cherry instrument also contains some hidden gems, a calibration target for the instrument, or for scanning the living environment for organic and chemicals with Raman and Luminescence.
The bottom row contains spacesuit material to see how they react to radiation over time in a Martian atmosphere. Is a piece of polycarbonate that can be used for a helmet visor. It doubles as a geographic target and is tilted along 221B Baker Street, the address of favorite fictional detective Sherlock Holmes.
The top row, which will be used for the fine tune settings on the instrument, contains pieces of Martian meteorite.
Patience companion Rover Curiosity also has its share of Easter eggs. When the rover began exploring the Martian surface in August 2012, it left a zigzagging pattern in the red dust based on the footsteps of its aluminum wheels.
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