John Carlos Baez on Nostr: I'm having my name sent on a microchip to Jupiter's moon Europa! Underneath the icy ...
I'm having my name sent on a microchip to Jupiter's moon Europa!
Underneath the icy surface of this moon, there's almost certainly a vast ocean of liquid water. So the human race is sending a radiation-tolerant spacecraft into a long, looping orbit around Jupiter to make close flybys of Europa and check it out. And just for fun, we're sending lots of people's names along for the ride.
You can send your name too if you provide a US address:
https://europa.nasa.gov/message-in-a-bottle/sign-on/It's easy to do - just do it before December 31st, 2023.
But what is this mission, called Europa Clipper, actually going to do?
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