Send Your Name To An Alien Moon By Kale Cunningham
Next October, NASA will launch its Europa Clipper mission to Jupiter’s moon Europa. The spacecraft will start a 7 year-long voyage to the planet’s moon before arriving in 2031. But you can join the spacecraft on its journey too!
Send Your Name On A 1.6 Billion-Mile Trip
You can click the link at the bottom of this article to sign up. Once you have, you can just enter in your name (first and last), your zip code, and your email! And that's it! It's free, and all you need is some sort of electronic device to register with. But time is running out. The last day to register is on December 31, 2023!
More About Europa Clipper
The mission first started 26 years ago in 1997 when a proposal was made to send a spacecraft to Jupiter’s ice-covered moon Europa. Since then, scientists have been searching for an opportunity to send the probe to the moon. Europa is considered to be one of the most likely places to discover alien life. It has been revealed that a hidden ocean is underneath its thick ice. The Europa Clipper will conduct a series of fly-bys around the moon during its mission. Using its powerful radio scanner, it will hopefully be able to map out the ocean underneath the ice. If successful, then the mission will map out a landing site for a lander mission, which would sample its surface.
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