Dare Mighty Things
Mars Perseverance Decoder Ring

I love this image! It presents the creative spirit and intentional design that went into every aspect of the Perseverance rover. The photo was taken by a parachute-up-look camera aboard the protective back shell of NASA's Perseverance rover during its descent toward Mars' Jezero Crater on February 18, 2021. The binary code represents two messages encoded in the white and international-orange parachute sections. According to NASA JPL, "The inner portion spells out "DARE MIGHTY THINGS," with each word located on its own ring of gores. The outer band of the canopy provides GPS coordinates for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California."
"Dare Mighty Things" is JPL's motto and is an abridgment of a quote from Teddy Roosevelt's "Strenuous Life" speech:
"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure ... 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." ~ Teddy Roosevelt
JPL, which is managed for NASA by Caltech in Pasadena, California, built and manages operations of the Perseverance rover.
Ian Clark, Mars 2020 Perseverance Systems Engineer, designed the binary code pattern.
For more information about the mission, go to: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020
Image source:
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/mars-decoder-ring
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