Secret messages like the one on Perseverance's chute serve as recent examples. NASA takes this playful tradition to another level, placing Easter eggs not in virtual worlds, but literally on other planets within our solar system. Since then, the term has spread across popular culture, with Easter eggs referring to anything from hidden objects to inside jokes to extra features.
Players could only find it if they went to the exact right place. The first commonly accepted Easter egg appeared in the 1980 Atari video game, Adventure, after the game’s disgruntled programmer hid his name inside the game. The term pops up commonly in video games and software. In nerdom, this kind of hidden message is called an Easter egg. than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat." "Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure. The hidden message comes from a longer Teddy Roosevelt quote, which reads: It turned out, the parachute’s strange pattern was actually a binary code message that spelled the phrase “Dare Mighty Things” - the motto of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s motto - as well as listed the lab's GPS coordinates. It didn't take long for internet sleuths to decipher the hidden message, posting the answer online within hours. “Sometimes we leave messages in our work for others to find for that purpose, so we invite you all to give it shot and show your work," said NASA’s Allen Chen, lead engineer for Entry, Descent, and Landing Systems, during a press conference.
And as the rover descended to the Martian surface, its parachute deployed, revealing a striking red and white pattern that mystified space fans when NASA released the descent images. On February 18, NASA’s Perseverance rover landed on Mars, ready to embark on a mission to search for signs of ancient alien life.
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