NASA’s mission to an ice-covered moon will carry a message between water worlds
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NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft, bound for Jupiter's ice-covered moon Europa in October 2024, will carry a laser-etched message celebrating humanity's connection with water. The message is a tribute to previous NASA missions that released similar messages.
As president of Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence, or METI, International, I helped design the message on Clipper along with two fellow members of our board of directors: linguists Sheri Wells-Jensen and Laura Buszard-Welcher. METI International is a scientific organization dedicated to sending powerful radio messages to extraterrestrial life.
We collected audio recordings in 103 languages and decided ...