2023-11-22 14:16:25
The American space agency NASA is offering those who want to add their name to an electronic chip that will board the Europa Clipper spacecraft next October to visit one of the moons of the planet Jupiter.
The goal of the mission, which will take off in October 2024 to land more than 1.8 billion kilometers further in 2030 on the moon Europa of the planet Jupiter, will be to look for signs of habitability, as well as to identify a possible landing site for a future mission, the National Post reported Tuesday.
Because scientists would be almost sure that there would be an ocean under the crust of the moon, continued the English-speaking media.
On board the ship, the space agency, which is used to including the public in its missions, plans to bring an electronic chip containing the list of all those who want to send their name into space, with a poem “for Europa,” written by U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón.
So far, more than 867,500 people have added their names to the “Message in a Bottle” list, which has been growing rapidly since June 2023, with electronic signatures from all four corners of the map.
In Canada, more than 17,700 citizens have also added their name.
In the past, NASA had several times appealed to the public to name its missions, as for its first rover to land on Mars, Sojourner, in 1995, recalled the “National Post”.
Two years later, the space agency also sent a mini DVD containing 616,400 hand signatures, including that of actor Patrick Stewart, who played Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation, for accompany a mission to Saturn.
Those who want to add their name to the list can do so on the NASA websiteuntil December 31.
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