Apparently the pattern on the Perserverance lander parachute is encoded in ASCII. How does ASCII work, and how does that encryption in color translate to text?
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ASCII is a list of characters in a well known order. When encoding ascii to binary you first find its decimal position in the table, then convert that decimal number to binary. It is helpful because computers can only run programs with binary so by having a common standards it makes computers compatible with each other. [link](https://www.rapidtables.com/code/text/ascii-table.html)
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