Mars rover's giant parachute had secret message encoded on it-check details NASA has made history after it successfully landed its Perseverance rover on the surface of Red Planet Mars Share Updated: Feb 24, 2021, 10:24 AM IST A puzzle lover in NASA's space team encoded a secret message on the huge parachute used by the Perseverance rover to land on Mars. Ian Clark, a system engineer, 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 mentioned the GPS coordinates for the mission's headquarters at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.