Media Art: The Coded Messages on the NASA Mars Perseverance Parachute

 

The parachute that helped land the NASA Mars Perseverance spacecraft held a secret message- where would you begin trying to decode it? Here it is 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 working together on social media- the message states:"DARE MIGHTY THINGS"

Another part of the rover has small material swatches mounted to the front of the vehicle to help validate NASA's fabric choices for future Mars-bound astronaut spacesuits. These swatches also help keep one of Perseverance's science instrument, SHERLOC (Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics & Chemicals), fine tuned as it investigates the dry river basin in Mars' Jezero Crater. It has another hidden Easter egg embedded in it as a reference to it's name, can you find it?

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