NASA’s Design for Message Heading to Jupiter’s Moon Europa

3 2 1 engine ignition there is a legacy of NASA spacecraft carrying inspiring

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s from Earth dating back to the Pioneer Plate and Voyager's Golden Record now Europa Clipper a new mission from one ocean world to another will continue this tradition because water connects our planet and that of Jupiter

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Europe all life as we know it and all human cultures a part of the spaceship has been engraved with

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s inspired by water and human connections this metal plate is part of a structure that will protect the spacecraft's electronics from Jupiter's radiation thread on a The side of the dish is a

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we call water words.

These wavy lines represent recordings of the word water in a diverse collection of human languages. The other side of the plate is a montage of elements that complete our

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in a bottle on top. the Drake equation a tribute to the visionary idea that the probability of finding life in the cosmos is something we can estimate below these two lines represent radio frequencies emitted in space by molecules related to water that have been considered an ideal place for Searching for interstellar communications, as suggested by some researchers, represents our ability to use the language of science to search for the science of life.

The following is a portrait of one of the founders of planetary science, Dr. Ron gy, whose early efforts to develop a mission to Europa laid the foundation for the Europa Clipper. At the heart of this message in a bottle is a handwritten poem by poet Laurate a Lon. The poem connects the two aquatic worlds. The Earth longs to reach and understand what makes a world habitable and Eur Opa awaits with secrets yet to be explored. finally, the bottle orbited by the four largest

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s of Jupiter to which will be attached a microchip engraved with more than 2.6 million names of those who signed in the spirit of the poem while sending our message on your Journey to Europe as technically advanced as The spacecraft is made by people and all the markings on the plate are handwritten or represent human voices and names because exploration takeoff is something we do together, something that connects us all as we head towards what cosmic. sea