The message was written in binary code, the parachute even had GPS coordinates on the outer rings.
The successful arrival on the planet Mars continues to captivate and generate speculation among internet users, who continue to search for new details about the space mission.
For example, internet users discovered that NASA had placed a “hidden” message on the Perseverance parachute.
Netizens learned that the red and white pattern of the parachute had not been a conscious choice by NASA. And they explained that there was a word written in binary code in the concentric rings.
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The message is said to have been deciphered by Maxence Abela, a student at the French computer science institution Epitech, and his father.
What the student says can be read on the parachute is: “Dare mighty things”, a motto of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) that means “Dare to be powerful things.”
Following the find, JPL also revealed that the parachute’s outer rings contain GPS coordinates for its offices in Pasadena, California.
Audio and video
The US space agency NASA released the first audio of Mars on Monday, a soft sound of wind picked up by the Perseverance rover, as well as the first video of the vehicle’s arrival on the red planet.
A microphone stopped working on the descent, but the rover was able to pick up audio once it stopped at 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, chief 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 deployment of the 21.5 meter white and red parachute.
Then it can be seen how the heat shield that protected the rover during its descent is detached and later the arrival at the Jezero crater in the middle of a cloud of dust.
“These are really great videos,” Michael Watkins, director of NASA’s jet propulsion laboratory, said in a conference call with reporters. “We watched them non-stop all weekend.”
“It is the first time that we have been able to record an event such as the arrival on Mars.”
Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA associate science administrator, said the Perseverance descent video “is the closest you can get to landing on Mars without putting on a pressure suit.”
The Perseverance rover launched on July 30, 2020 and landed on the red planet last Thursday.