2023-06-12 12:30:16
If you could send a piece of your world to another planet what would you choose? The desire to conquer other territories has always been one of the challenges of the human being and perhaps in the collective imagination of all that moment is represented by the moment in which a astronaut nails the flag of his country on the new surface.
The NASA he does not cease in his efforts to gradually discover every corner of the universe and one of his projects goes through the clipper mission scheduled for October 2024 on which he has already given new details. the american space agency it will send a spacecraft to Jupiter’s moon Europa which is believed to be able to support life in its icy shell.
NASA’s new idea is to send brushstrokes of humanity and for this they will send a kind of ‘message in a Bottle’ with a poem and the names of those who want to leave their mark in outer space.
Interested? Pay attention, because we explain what steps you have to take. The initiative is called ‘Message in a bottle’. To participate you have to fill out a simple form and the deadline to do so will be extended until December 31, 2023.
How will your name come?
The Europa Clipper space probe is scheduled to arrive at Jupiter for the year 2030. NASA wants to find evidence that the right conditions exist to host microbial life.
These indications will be sought with different instruments that will collect data on the underground ocean, the ice crust and the atmosphere of the Moon Europa.
The names and surnames will be stamped on microchips along with a poem by the American writer Ada Limón, ‘In Praise of Mystery: A Poem for Europe’.
Poem
In Praise of Mystery: A Poem for the Spaceship Europa. Translated by Roque Raquel Salas Rivera
Arched under the dyed night cloth
of a black expansiveness, we point out
the planets we know, fix
dreams hurried to the stars. From the earth,
we read the firmament as if it were an infallible book
covering the universe, expert and evident.
Still, our sky conceals mysteries;
the song of the whale, the bird that chirps
his song from the branch of a tree shaken by the wind.
We are creatures of lingering wonder,
curious before the beauty, the leaf and the flower,
before the duel and the pleasure, the sun and the shadow.
And what unites us is not darkness,
nor the cold distance of space, but
the offering of water, each drop of rain,
every stream, every pulsebeat, every vein.
Oh second moon, we, too, are
of water, of vast seas that invite.
We, too, are made of wonders, of loves
great and ordinary, of invisible and minute worlds,
of the need to launch a call through the darkness.
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