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Parachute


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. The message, written by systems engineer Ian Clark in binary code through alternating white and orange strips on the 70-foot chute, spelled out the NASA motto …

Image copyright Esa Image caption The Rosalind Franklin rover carries a drill to collect samples from below the Martian surface A European-Russian effort to land on Mars has been hit by another parachute failure, during a drop test in Sweden. It’s the second test mishap involving the parachutes, so with launch under a year away, …