The message was written in binary code, the parachute even had GPS coordinates placed on the outer rings.
Successful arrival on Mars continues to captivate and generate speculation among Internet users, who continue to look for new details about the space mission.
This is how internet users discovered that NASA placed a “hidden” message on the Perseverance parachute.
Internet users realized that the red and white model of the parachute had not been a deliberate choice by NASA. And they detailed that in concentric rings there was a word written in binary code.
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The message was deciphered by Maxence Abela, a student at the French computer science institution Epitech, and by his father.
According to the student, what can be read on the parachute is: “Dare strong things”, a motto of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) which means “Dare strong things”.
Following the discovery, 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 from Mars, a light wind sound captured by the Perseverance rover, as well as the first video with the arrival of the vehicle on the red planet.
A microphone stopped working during the descent, but the rover managed to pick up the sound once it was stopped at the surface.
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NASA engineers have 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 captured by the microphone and sent back to Earth,” said Dave Gruel, senior engineer for Perseverance’s camera and microphone system.
On the other hand, the high-definition video, which lasts three minutes and 25 seconds, shows the development of the white and red parachute of 21.5 meters.
Then you can see how the heat shield that protected the rover in its descent and later arrival in the Jezero crater in the middle of a cloud of dust comes off.
“These are really amazing videos,” Michael Watkins, director of NASA’s jet propulsion laboratory, said in a conference call with reporters. “I watched them non-stop all weekend.”
“This is the first time we’ve managed to capture an event like the arrival on Mars.”
Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA’s associate scientific director, said the video of Perseverance’s offspring is “closest to landing on Mars without wearing a pressure suit.”
The Perseverance rover was launched on July 30, 2020 and landed on the red planet last Thursday.