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Father-daughter team decodes 'alien signal' from Mars that stumped the world for a year

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A father-daughter team has decoded a mock "alien" message after a year of trying.

Ken and Keli Chaffin from the U.S. were the first to crack the code.

The message was sent from ESA 's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter as part of a citizen science project.

Citizen scientists are trying to figure out what the decoded missive truly means for Earth .

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