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NASA Martian Rover Easter Eggs: From Hidden Messages to Geocaches – autoevolution
“Festooning” is how NASA calls its tradition of fitting space exploration hardware with hidden messages, nods to the past, or harder-to-understand Easter eggs -…
The recently launched Perseverance rover is no exception from the tradition. Presently closer to the Red Planet than its homeworld, this machine too carries with it such items and messages for future generations of Martian dwellers to discover. And NASA decided last week to tell us about five of them.Some of you might already know the rover is carrying with it a microchip stenciled with the names of 10.9-million people. But what fewer of us knew is that the chip also contains “the 155 finalist essays…
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