NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft, launching this year, carries a triangular plate with 2.6 million names, a poem, the Drake Equation, and an ASL water symbol for Europa's ocean investigation.
NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft, launching later this year, will carry a triangular metal plate bearing over 2.6 million names submitted by the public, along with a poem by U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón, the Drake Equation, and a symbol representing the American Sign Language sign for "water." The mission aims to investigate Jupiter's moon Europa, which has a subsurface ocean containing more water than Earth's oceans combined.
March 08, 2024
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