Launches & rockets · first seen 10 Aug, updated 10 Aug
The stripes on Perseverance’s parachute were mostly there so engineers could see how the canopy was oriented, but the pattern also hid a message in binary, and the internet decoded it within hours of the landing — a motto, and a set of coordinates pointing at a spot on Earth
NASA engineers hid a secret message in the Perseverance rover's parachute stripes—one that amateur codebreakers cracked before the dust had settled on Mars. The post The stripes on Perseverance’s parachute were mostly there so engineers cou…
Summary from SpaceDaily.