A Father-Daughter Duo Cracked an ‘Alien’ Code Sent From Space
In May of 2023, as part of a science-art project, the European Space Agency’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter sent a signal to Earth as a simulated “alien message.” Although citizen scientists retrieved the signal from the raw data in only 10 days, it took longer than a year to actually decode the message. The father-daughter…