When NASA’s Perseverance rover returned the first-ever video of a descent through the Martian atmosphere and landing on the red planet, a secret code was revealed in the parachute. Meet Ian ...

The parachute testing was carried out at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia in 2017 and 2018. ... For example, thanks to tiny holes in its wheels, the Curiosity rover ...

The Curiosity rover uses images of the repeating pattern to determine exactly how far it has traveled and allows it to check that there’s been no wheel slippage. Perseverance is also carrying 10 ...

The parachute’s hidden message includes the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory motto, “Dare mighty things,” as well as GPS coordinates for JPL in Pasadena, California.

NASA has a history of including hidden messages on its rovers.. The Curiosity rover, which arrived at the red planet in 2012, has tiny holes in its wheels that read "JPL" in Morse code.

The parachute for NASA’s Perseverance rover had a hidden message written in binary code that said “Dare Mighty Things. ... The Curiosity rover, which landed on the Red Planet in 2012, ...

Curiosity deployed its parachute when it reached a particular velocity, without considering where it was. Then terrain-relative navigation will allow Perseverance to select a safe landing spot.

The study reveals the enormous power that curiosity exerts as a motivating force in human behavior, driving us, even at the risk of personal harm, to satisfy our need to know in much the same way ...

Dr Anita Sengupta led the team that developed the supersonic parachute which helped land Nasa’s Curiosity rover on Mars in 2012. It’s still exploring the Red Planet today.

NASA is getting better all the time at landing things on Mars — a challenge, given the planet’s ultrathin atmosphere. But, as payloads grow, so does the challenge. Next week at Wallops … ...

When the 2020 rover enters Mars' atmosphere, it'll be moving at over 12,000 mph (5.4 kilometers per second), and it'll weigh around 2,000 pounds like curiosity. You need a big parachute to slow ...

NASA's Mars 2020 mission is well into the testing phase, and now the organization has successfully conducted the first test of a supersonic parachute that will (hopefully) allow the craft to ...