Well, this old robotics engineer from days now past, who once worked at a university under a JPL contract, is all up innit.

Did you know that the wheel treads of Curiousity leave a MESSAGE in the Martian Sands everywhere she goes?

There are slots milled into the wheels that extrude sand into Morse Code letters as the wheels roll.

Di-Dah-Dah-Dah

Di-Dah-Dah-Dit

Di-Dah-Di-Dit

or

J

P

L

Over and over again.

How cool is that?

Morse is the *only* digital code that does not require a machine to read it. Can be done with the human senses and mind only.

One of the whizkids might be an Amateur Radio Operator and ain't a nocode nuthin'...


--Mac