At Bad Astronomy on February 22, 2021 Phil Plait has an article titled Watch groundbreaking video from the Mars Perseverance landing! That sky crane lowering the rover is incredible. A February 23, 2021 NASA JPL article titled Mars Decoder Ring explains a message in the parachute, which also is described by Martin Belam at The Guardian in another article titled ‘Dare mighty things’: hidden message found on NASA Mars rover parachute.
The message with the JPL motto is from an April 10 1899 speech by Theodore Roosevelt titled The Strenuous Life, and the whole sentence with that quote is:
“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.”
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