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Like any good piece of high-tech hardware, NASA’s Perseverance rover features an Easter egg hidden in plain sight. Since landing on Mars on February 18th, NASA has been sharing thousands of photos captured by the rover. And if you look close enough, you’ll catch a decal bolted to the top of its body. That decal depicts Perseverance and every single other NASA rover to successfully make it to the surface of Mars.
From left to right, you can see Sojourner, Spirit and Opportunity, Curiosity and Perseverance lined up in the order they landed on the Red Planet: 1997, 2004, 2012 and 2021. On the far right of the decal is NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter drone, which caught a ride on Perseverance and will attempt to fly the skies of Mars later this year.
Not pictured in the family portrait are the dozens of other landers that other space agencies have sent to Mars, or China's Tianwen-1 rover, which is scheduled to land on the Red Planet this summer.
The parachute that helped NASA’s Perseverance rover land on Mars with a seemingly random pattern of colors, as shown in the video clip of the rover’s landing also contained a hidden message written in binary computer code. Within hours, the internet folks figured that the red and white pattern spelled out “Dare Mighty Things” in concentric rings, which is the Perseverance team's motto.
Source:
https://www.newsweek.com/mars-perseverance-rover-family-portrait-decal-photos-1572269
https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/23/22297094/hidden-message-parachute-nasa-mars-perseverance-rover
https://www.engadget.com/perseverance-family-portrait-decal-013708361.html
https://www.space.com/perseverance-rover-mars-robots-family-portrait
