"NASA's Europa Clipper: Sending a 'Golden Record' Message to Alien Life"
NASA's Europa Clipper mission, set to launch in October, will carry a unique design etched with names, poetry, and artwork symbolizing humanity to Jupiter's moon Europa, one of the best places to search for life beyond Earth. The spacecraft will carry a triangular plate made of tantalum, featuring a silicon microchip with over 2.6 million names, a poem by US Poet Laureate Ada Limón, and a portrait of planetary sciences pioneer Ron Greeley. The plate also includes the Drake Equation and waveforms depicting the word "water" in 103 languages. Europa Clipper aims to make nearly 50 flybys of Europa to study its potential to support life using various instruments, including cameras, spectrometers, and ice-penetrating radar.
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