After a year of hard work, the American father-daughter team has decoded the extraterrestrial signal sent from Mars. Their names are Ken Chaffin and Kelly Chaffin. This signal was received from Mars and sent to Earth by the European Space Agency’s (ESA) ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) in May last year.
To decode this signal, the SETI Institute, Green Bank Observatory, ESA and INAF jointly organized a citizen scientist competition. Three radio astronomy observatories on Earth captured this message. Then we decode it. Ten days later, more than five thousand citizen scientists around the world began decoding this signal. They were all doing this work online.
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Who revealed this code?
Ken and Kelly Chaffin from the United States decoded this signal. In which there were five groups of white dots and lines. Whose background was black. These pointed towards the formation of cells. That is, towards the creation of life. Ken and Kelly said our decoded message contains five amino acids that create life in the universe. These are all biological molecular diagrams. That is, a diagram of amino acids that give life.
In these blocks you will find atomic numbers of 1,6, 7, 8 pixels. That means hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen and oxygen. The lines in these diagrams are made up of single and double bonds. As in the common atomic diagram. The dots work to connect them.
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The signal has been decoded, now what’s next?
Ken and Kelly have decoded the signal, but citizen scientists are still trying to understand it. The competition still continues. Now the next objective is to understand the meaning of this decoded message. Now the Chaffin family will do some separate testing. So that the message hidden behind can also be understood.
