The first intelligent message received from space to be decoded

toOn May 24, 2023, the European Space Agency's Trace Gas Orbiter probe moved to Earth The first intelligent message from space. Intercepted by three astronomical observatories (the Medicina Radio Astronomical Station of the National Institute of Astrophysics near Bologna in Italy, the Green Bank Observatory in West Virginia, and the Allen Telescope Array in California), this one was less mysterious. Only one person knows its content: the multidisciplinary artist of Italian nationality, Daniela De Paulis, owner of the scientific-artistic project “Mark in Space”, resident at the SETI Institute (the search for extraterrestrial intelligence) and at the Green Centre. Bank Monitor.

With the support of the Institute's scientists such as its director, the French exobiology Nathalie Cabrol, or the planetary scientist Franck Marchis, his idea was to make a planetary simulation, as realistic as possible, of the first extraterrestrial contact reception. This is how the message received during an online event was displayed and shared across all social networks so that anyone could take on this amazing challenge. How long will it take us to decode it? How can we decipher it, and above all, for how long?

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The response came on Wednesday, June 12, 2024. It took more than a year, and many months of exchanging information. […] read more