{"id":1066,"date":"2023-05-25T19:27:49","date_gmt":"2023-05-25T19:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dereumlabs.com\/global\/?p=1066"},"modified":"2023-05-25T19:27:49","modified_gmt":"2023-05-25T19:27:49","slug":"alien-signal-beamed-to-earth-from-mars-in-seti-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dereumlabs.com\/global\/news\/alien-signal-beamed-to-earth-from-mars-in-seti-test\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Alien&#8217; signal beamed to Earth from Mars in SETI test"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>At 3 p.m. EDT (1600 GMT) today (May 24), Europe&#8217;s Trace Gas Orbiter\u00a0Mars\u00a0probe beamed a coded message toward Earth. Sixteen minutes later, it was received by three big radio telescopes on\u00a0Earth, kicking off a global effort to decipher the cryptic signal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/3mvcuL7NgquZU7jQ3uGwUg-320-80.jpg\" alt=\"spacecraft orbiting mars with blackness of space in the background.\" width=\"494\" height=\"278\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>That effort is A Sign in Space, a multiweek project led by Daniela de Paulis, the current artist in residence at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California and the Green Bank Observatory in West Virginia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00abThroughout history, humanity has searched for meaning in powerful and transformative phenomena,\u00bb de Paulis\u00a0said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00abReceiving a\u00a0message from an extraterrestrial civilization\u00a0would be a profoundly transformational experience for all humankind,\u00bb she added. \u00abA Sign in Space offers the unprecedented opportunity to tangibly rehearse and prepare for this scenario through global collaboration, fostering an open-ended search for meaning across all cultures and disciplines.\u00bb<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Breakthrough Listen to Partner with the MeerKAT Telescope to Search a Million Stars\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Tq-9VRYnOcU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Green Bank Observatory is one of the three scopes that listened for the\u00a0Trace Gas Orbiter&#8217;s signal today, along with the SETI Institute&#8217;s Allen Telescope Array in northern California and the Medicina Radio Astronomical Station in northern Italy, which is managed by the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Researchers at each of those facilities will now process the signal and make it available to their colleagues around the world and to the public at large. The project team wants folks from a range of backgrounds to study the signal and try their hand at deciphering it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00abThis experiment is an opportunity for the world to learn how the SETI community, in all its diversity, will work together to receive, process, analyze and understand the meaning of a potential\u00a0extraterrestrial signal,\u00bb Wael Farah, project scientist for the ATA, said in the same statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00abMore than astronomy, communicating with E.T. will require a breadth of knowledge,\u00bb Farah said. \u00abWith A Sign in Space, we hope to make the initial steps towards bringing a community together to meet this challenge.\u00bb<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can learn more, and submit your own ideas about the message, via\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/asignin.space\/the-message\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the project&#8217;s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can participate in A Sign in Space in other ways as well.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For example, over the next six to eight weeks, the project team will host a series of Zoom meetings that will focus on the\u00a0societal implications\u00a0of detecting a \u00abtechnosigature\u00bb from advanced alien life, among other topics.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We recommend you: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dereumlabs.com\/global\/news\/nasas-hubble-hunts-for-intermediate-sized-black-hole-close-to-home\/\">NASA\u2019s Hubble Hunts for Intermediate-Sized Black Hole Close to Home<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/seti-alien-message-decoding-practice\">Space<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 3 p.m. EDT (1600 GMT) today (May 24), Europe&#8217;s Trace Gas Orbiter\u00a0Mars\u00a0probe beamed a coded message toward Earth. 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