Can you spot all the 'Easter eggs' hiding inside NASA's Orion capsule? trends now
NASA revealed it had created a puzzle that is out of this world.
The American space agency announced this week that its Orion, which is on a trajectory back to Earth, is filled with several Easter eggs with hidden meanings.
The answers will be revealed on December 10 - a day before the capsule returns to Earth - but Twitter users have spotted some symbols, numbers and pictures.
Some guesses include a red bird-like symbol, a Snoopy soft toy and a yellow label with the letters CBAGF, thought to be the first five notes of Frank Sinatra's song 'Fly Me To The Moon.'
Orion is currently on a trajectory home after a successful journey to the moon and back during a 1.3-million-mile voyage that saw it fly the furthest any spacecraft designed to carry humans has ever traveled.
NASA revealed it placed puzzles throughout its Orion capsule and has challenged the public to find them
Orion is just 48 hours from home, but a lot could still go wrong before it splashes down in the Pacific Ocean.
While the mission aimed to test the capsule in space, the splashdown is described as 'priority one' because engineers want to see proof that the spacecraft can survive the heat of re-entry into Earth's atmosphere.
The capsule must withstand searing temperatures of 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit — half as hot as the sun's surface — and slow down from speeds of 24,500mph.
Until then, NASA is challenging the public to solve puzzles intricately placed inside Orion.
Located on the side adjacent Commander Moonikin Campos, a sensor-packed mannequin, is an image of a red bird.
NASA will provide the answers on Saturday, but guesses are being made to unravel the mysteries
It is either an eagle, a reference to the Eagle, the Lunar Module that took Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to the Moon's surface or refers to the Phoenix Mars Lander, which landed on Mars on May 25, 2008, reports SWS.
Morse code that translates to Charlie, likely associated with the Snoopy soft toy used as the zero-gravity indicator, is hanging on the cabin's roof.
The astronaut Snoopy toy refers to the 1969 Apollo 10 Command and Service Module nicknamed Charlie Brown.
The capsule launched atop a Saturn V rocket with three astronauts.
As the Apollo 10 crew walked along the corridor to the launch pad, mission commander Thomas P. Stafford pats the nose of Snoopy, the mission's mascot, held by Jamye Flowers, astronaut Gordon Coopers' secretary.
Another Easter egg spotted is the retro logotype known as the 'worm' or 'the meatball.'
In 1992, the 1970s brand was retired - except on clothing and other souvenir items - in favor of the original late 1950s graphic.
And along the front panel are several numbers.
While they are hard to decipher in the image, it might read '1 31 32 33 34 39 41 45 46 47 49'.
Twitter is stumped on the numbers, but some speculate they are coordinates.
Orion features the so-called 'Callisto payload,' a technology demonstration of voice-activated audio and video technology from Lockheed Martin in collaboration with Amazon and Cisco.
The blue circle may reference the HAL 9000 computer from the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey, although that had a red light in a circle.
One of the last guesses involves a black and white pattern on a panel.
One online guess thought it was binary code: 'Binary 10010 to decimal is 18. The 18 Artemis astronauts?' while another said they 'look like piano keys, could be the music notes
