Free Republic 3rd Qtr 2024 Fundraising Target: $81,000 Receipts & Pledges to-date: $5,415
6%  
Woo hoo!! And we're now over 6%!! Thank you all very much!! God bless.

Keyword: perservance

Brevity: Headers | « Text »
  • Mars rover's giant parachute carried secret message

    02/25/2021 3:11:56 AM PST · by buckalfa · 35 replies
    Phys.Org ^ | February 24, 2021 | Marcia Dunn
    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. 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-meter) parachute. He also included the GPS coordinates for the mission's headquarters at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Clark, a crossword hobbyist, came up with the idea two years ago. Engineers wanted an unusual pattern in the nylon fabric to know how the parachute was oriented during descent. Turning it...