Internet sleuths have notice a hidden message secreted in the parachute that help thePerseverance rover land on Marslast calendar week . If you ’re raising a skeptical brow right now , hold your horses . NASA does have precedence for this , and the message is a well - known NASA motto .
No , it ’s not " We derive in ataraxis . "
VariousRedditand Twitter exploiter have declared the discovery of the phrase " defy mighty things " encoded in the red and clean pattern on the chute .
According to theGuardian , during a live stream discussing the landing last week , a NASA observer said : “ Sometimes we provide content in our work for others to find . So we invite you all to give it a shot and show your employment . ” So , get to forge they did .
Initially , people thought the pattern on the parachute looked deliberate , as it ’s not harmonious . On closer inspection , it appears if the bolshie represent 1 and the white represents 0 , and the three concentric circles seen in the practice spell out the three words " presume mighty matter " .
There are a duo of ways mass have worked this out , but at its most simple , by splitting these 1s and 0s into groups of 10 and adding 64 you get the computer American Standard Code for Information Interchange code . This is a standard datum - transmission computer code used to represent text datum like letter , numbers , and punctuation used by personal calculator – in this instance , a letter .
For example , seven ashen stripes , one ruddy band , two blank could be read as 0000000100 , the binary star for 4 . add 64 to 4 gives you 68 , theASCII computer code for D , the start of " Dare " .
The phrase is used as a motto by NASA ’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory ( JPL ) , which is managing the Mars scouter mission , and is emblazoned on the walls of the delegacy control elbow room at the facility . It was also used in thepromotional videosfor the Curiosity bird of passage ’s launch to Mars in 2011 .
In fact , it ’s make out up a band in mention to Perseverance , like in the cartridge holder above of JPL systems engine driver on theEntry , Descent , and Landingsystems , Allen Chen , describing working on the mission .
Here is the rover – or the Twitter personification of it – declare it on February 19 , the day after bring down on Mars .
Adding fuel to the findings is the last out ring rule of the parachute , cogitate by the online tec to represent34 ° 11'58.0"N 118 ° 10'31.0"W , the geographic coordinates for JPL in La Cañada Flintridge , California .
Well , congrats , net sleuthhound , you were right . Here is primary engineer for Perseverance , Adam Steltnzer , confirming the Easter ballock .
This is n’t the first time NASA has sneak a substance or a piece of memorabilia onto a scouter . alloy from thewreckage of the Twin Towerson 9/11 go to Mars on Opportunity and Spirit , while Spirit also carried amemorial plaqueto the seven gang member of the Space Shutte Columbia who die when the shuttle disintegrate on reentry to Earth in 2003 .
Amongst the other " hidden gems " hitching a ride on Perseverance is a nod to the COVID pandemic that has swept the macrocosm . Amemorial plaquebears the symbol of the Rod of Asclepius – the ancient Grecian symbolisation of healing and medicine – to commemorate the virus ’s encroachment that could have set the foreign mission off course , and to pay tribute to " the perseverance of health care workers around the globe . "
[ H / T : The Guardian ]
