TORONTO Last week, the NASA’s new Mars rover, Perseverance, sailed down safely to the planet, a white and red parachute billowing out above the spacecraft carrying it. But the parachute didn’t just help protect Perseverance it also contained a hidden message. The internet got its first look at the landing process and the parachute when NASA released a video of the rover’s descent on Monday. The parachute had a distinctive design, comprised of sections coloured in white and red in seemingly random segments. However, NASA officials hinted at there being a code in the parachute. “In addition to enabling incredible science, we hope our efforts and our engineering can inspire others,” Allen Chen, the project’s Entry, Descent and Landing lead, said in a press conference Monday. “Sometimes we leave messages in our work for others to find for that purpose. So we invite you all to give it a shot, and show your work.”