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“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.” (Theodore Roosevelt, 1899) All photos: NASA/JPL. That’s the parachute that slowed the Mars Perseverance rover down from supersonic to subsonic velocities as it entered the thin atmosphere of the planet. Unlike previous missions, this time NASA was determined to record every step of the nail-biting seven-minute descent. For the criti...

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.

Those splotches were a secret message. During a news conference Monday, Allen Chen, the engineer in charge of the landing system, narrated what could be seen and learned in the slowed-down video. He added, cryptically and nonchalantly, that his team hoped to inspire others. “Sometimes we leave messages in our work for others to find for that purpose,” he said. “So we invite you all to give it a shot and show your work.” Across the Atlantic Ocean, Maxence Abela, a 23-year-old computer science student in Paris, realized what Chen was saying: The seemingly random pattern on Perseverance�...

NASA Sent a Secret Message to Mars. Meet the People Who Decoded It. Engineers hinted they had hidden a code in the parachute that landed the Perseverance rover. Within hours, puzzle enthusiasts cracked it. The parachute that helped land the Perseverance spacecraft, seen from an upward-looking camera during landing on Feb. 18. Within hours of this image’s release on Monday, people figured out the message hidden in its pattern.Credit...NASA/JPL-Caltech Published Feb. 24, 2021Updated March 23, 2021 Those splotches were a secret message. During a news conference Monday, Allen Chen, the engineer...

  TORONTO -- Last week, the NASA’s new Mars rover, Perseverance, sailed down safely to the planet, a white and red parachute billowing out above the spacecraft carrying it. But the parachute didn’t just help protect Perseverance — it also contained a hidden message. The internet got its first look at the landing process and the parachute when NASA released a video of the rover’s descent on Monday. The parachute had a distinctive design, comprised of sections coloured in white and red in seemingly random segments. However, NASA officials hinted at there being a code in the parach...