‘Alien message’ will be sent from Mars TOMORROW

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Earth will receive its first “alien” message from Mars on Wednesday.

The SETI Institute will send a “coded” signal from a spacecraft orbiting the Red Planet to three huge telescopes on our planet.

The idea is to prepare scientists for the “profoundly transformative experience for all of humanity” when aliens actually contact us, the researchers said.

The team is keeping important details about the stunt under wraps, including the type of signal and what it contains. However, a radio signal takes about five to twenty minutes to reach Mars from Earth.

The tight lid is because the encrypted broadcast is shared with the public so they can help decrypt it.

The European Space Agency’s Mars orbiter will transmit the coded message at 3 p.m. ET, with reception on Earth 16 minutes later — after traveling 180 million miles through space.

After the broadcast, scientists will process the signal and make it available to the public for decoding.

The SETI Institute broadcasts a signal from the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) orbiting the Red Planet to three massive telescopes on our planet. One of the telescopes is the Allen Telescope Array

The signal is sent to Earth by ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO), which has been studying the Martian atmosphere since 2016.

Daniela dePaulis, the visionary artist behind the A Sign in Space project, said in a rack: ‘Throughout history, humanity has searched for meaning in powerful and transformative phenomena.

“Receiving a message from an alien civilization would be a profoundly transformative experience for all of humanity.

“A Sign in Space offers the unprecedented opportunity to tangibly rehearse and prepare for this scenario through global collaboration, fostering an open search for meaning across cultures and disciplines.”

The SETI Institute is a nonprofit, multidisciplinary research and education organization whose mission is to lead humanity’s quest to understand the origin and prevalence of life and intelligence in the universe and to share that knowledge with the world.

A Sign in Space will also be the first project to achieve such a feat. Other research sent signals to space and not the other way around.

The Allen Telescope Array (ATA), Robert C. Byrd of the Green Bank Observatory (GBT) in West Virginia and the Medicina Radio Astronomical Station in northern Italy will work together to collect the signal from Mars.

Once SETI catches the “alien” signal, teams securely store the processed data in partnership with Open Data Archive and Filecoin, a decentralized storage network.

The Mars orbiter will beam the message at 3 p.m. ET, which will be received on Earth 16 minutes later

To engage the public, the SETI Institute is hosting a livestreamed social media event featuring interviews with key team members, including scientists, engineers, artists, and more, participating in the livestream from around the world, including ATA control rooms, the GBT, and Medica.

“Anyone working on decoding and interpreting the message can discuss the process on the A Sign in Space Discord server,” SETI shared.

‘Submissions of findings, thoughts and artistic and scientific input can be made through the special submission form on the project’s website.’

After the broadcast, the A Sign in Space team will host a series of Zoom-based discussions open to the public on topics considering the societal implications of detecting a signal from an alien civilization.

And discussions will take place over the next six to eight weeks after receiving the transmission.

SETI’s experiment could be put to good use as a separate study predicts aliens will make contact with Earth by 2029.

In 2002, NASA sent radio waves to the Pioneer 10 probe in a routine protocol to transmit data and ensure communications were established.

This signal also reached a star about 27 light-years from our planet as the transmission spreads when they come into contact with an object.

The UC researchers hope that this signal was intercepted by aliens calling back to Earth.

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