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G_j

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Tue Feb 23, 2021, 12:29 PM Feb 2021

NASA hid secret messages in the Perseverance parachute

https://www.cnet.com/news/nasa-hid-secret-messages-in-the-perseverance-parachute/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=news_tab&utm_content=algorithm


You might have noticed the unusual pattern to the red and white in the Perseverance rover's parachute as it landed on Mars last week, and NASA teased a secret message coded in the colors. Maxence Abela, a student at French computer science institution Epitech, and his father quickly figured it out.

The message reads "Dare mighty things," a slogan of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), while a JPL's Paul Ramirez revealed that the outer rings included GPS coordinates.
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NASA hid secret messages in the Perseverance parachute (Original Post) G_j Feb 2021 OP
Cool stuff! Thanks for the link! nt Wounded Bear Feb 2021 #1
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