If you want your name to travel through the Solar System, towards Jupiter, we show you what you have to do.
Experts believe that there could be life in the subterranean seas of Jupiter’s moon Europa, So the POT has launched the clipper mission to check. Your name and surname can travel more than 3,000 million kilometers in the ship itself, inside a bottle.
From what it seems the bottle is symbolic, since in reality the names will be screen printed on a chipnext to a poem written by the American poet of Mexican origin, ada lemon. The chip will be included in the Clipper ship that will travel to the moon Europa, since Jupiter.
“‘Message in a Bottle is the perfect convergence of science, art and technology, and we are excited to share with the world the opportunity to be a part of Clipper’s journey to Europe.“, explains Nicola Fox, associate administrator of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, in the Press release.
“I love to think that our names will travel through our Solar System aboard the radiation tolerant spacecraft that aims to unlock the secrets of Jupiter’s icy moon.“.
Your name on the moon Europe
He Europe satellite from Jupiter, it is slightly smaller than our Moon. It was discovered by Galileo Galilei in 1610., along with Io, Ganymede and Callisto. Although he called them Jupiter I, II, III and IV.
They are known by the name of Galilean satellitesand can be seen from Earth with a standard telescope.
Europa is a satellite covered in ice. But scientists believe that, under that layer, there is an underground sea with conditions to harbor life. The goal of the clipper mission will check it out.
It is a mission similar to the one already launched by the European Space Agency. You can see it on this card:
NASA invites you to send your name and surname to be screen printed on a chip, which will go inside the Clipper mission spacecraft. will travel almost 3 billion kilometers since in addition to exploring Europa it will orbit Jupiter and its moon more than 50 times.
This chip will also include this poem by the poet Ada Limónthat you can read here in spanish.
You can register until December 31, at this website. The Clipper mission will depart in October 2024and will not reach Jupiter until 2030.
NASA offers to send your name to Jupiter’s moon Europa for free, traveling more than 3,000 million kilometers. It can be a historical mission, if it fulfills its main objective: find alien life.
