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The Globe and Mail Marcia Dunn Bookmark Please log in to listen to this story. Also available in French and Mandarin. Log In Create Free Account Getting audio file ... This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy. Full Disclaimer The Associated Press NASA’s experimental helicopter Ingenuity rose into the thin air above the dusty red surface of Mars on Monday, achieving the first powered flight by an aircraft on another planet. The triumph wa...

NASAs Ingenuity helicopter. (Photo by NASA) Published April 11. 2021 1:47AM  Christian Davenport, The Washington Post They landed a car-size rover on Mars, and the brilliant, if cheeky, engineers at NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory even snuck a coded message into the parachute used to slow it down for a soft landing that read, "Dare Mighty Things."  Now comes what the space agency says will be a "Wright brothers" moment on Mars: the first powered flight of an aircraft on another planet. It won...

NASA is preparing to fly the Ingenuity helicopter on Mars, in an otherworldly Wright brothers moment Christian Davenport Replay Video UP NEXT They landed a car-size rover on Mars, and the brilliant, if cheeky, engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory even snuck a coded message into the parachute used to slow it down for a soft landing that read, “Dare Mighty Things.” Now comes what the space agency says will be a “Wright brothers” moment on Mars: the first power...

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The huge parachute used by NASA’s Perseverance rover to land on Mars contained a secret message, thanks to a puzzle lover on the spacecraft team.

Amateur puzzle fans delighted this week when NASA revealed it had hidden a secret color-coded message on the parachute for the Perseverance rover that landed on Mars last week.

While to many, the colors and patterns on the Perseverance rover’s landing parachute appeared random, internet sleuths quickly decoded a hidden message in the design.

The huge parachute used by NASAs Perseverance rover to land on Mars contained a secret message, thanks to a puzzle lover on the spacecraft team. Systems engineer Ian Clark used a binary code to spell out Dare Mighty Things in the orange and white strips of the 70-foot (21-metre) parachute. He also included the GPS coordinates for the missions headquarters at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Clark, a crossword hobbyist, came up with the idea two years ago. Engineers want...

It turns out that the red and white pattern of the parachute are concentric rings that spell out "Dare Mighty Things."

NASA has a history of doing interesting and unexpected things when it comes to its space missions. Recently, NASA successfully placed the Perseverance rover