8/7/2023 0 Comments Carla soto facebookThe Library of Congress Poetry and Literature Center is the home of the nation’s official poet, the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry – a position that has existed since 1937. She is the author of several poetry collections, including “The Hurting Kind” and “The Carrying,” which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. Limón was born in Sonoma, California, and is of Mexican ancestry. She was appointed 24th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry by Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden in 2022 and reappointed for a second, two-year term in April 2023. In January, Limón visited JPL to see the spacecraft and learn more about the mission. As it orbits Jupiter and flies by Europa about 50 times, it will log another half-billion miles (800,000 kilometers) while a suite of science instruments gathers data on the subsurface ocean, the ice crust, and the moon’s atmosphere. Set to launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida, the spacecraft will travel 1.8 billion miles (2.6 billion kilometers) to reach the Jupiter system, where it will arrive in 2030. “Inspiration is riding along with every single name that will be making the journey to Europa.”Įuropa Clipper currently is being assembled, on camera, at JPL. It’s what drives humanity to ask the big questions that this mission will contribute to,” said Laurie Leshin, director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory ( JPL) in Southern California, which leads the development of Europa Clipper. “Inspiration is what fueled the people who developed this flagship mission and who hand-crafted the largest spacecraft NASA has sent to explore the solar system. In the vein of NASA’s Voyagers’ Golden Record, which sent a time capsule of sounds and images to communicate the diversity of life and culture on Earth, the program aims to spark the imagination of people around the world. It draws from the agency’s long tradition of shipping inspirational messages on spacecraft that have explored our solar system and beyond. The “Message in a Bottle” campaign is similar to other NASA projects that have enabled tens of millions of people to send their names to ride along with Artemis I and several Mars spacecraft. Poet Laureate Ada Limón and titled “In Praise of Mystery: A Poem for Europa.”Īrtist’s rendering of NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft. EST, December 31, 2023, will be stenciled onto a microchip, along with the poem, written by U.S. The poem and the names will be like a message in a bottle, traveling billions of miles as the mission investigates whether the ocean thought to lie beneath Europa’s icy crust could support life.Īs part of the “Message in a Bottle” campaign, names received before 11:59 p.m. Members of the public are invited to add their names to an original poem dedicated to NASA’s Europa Clipper mission before the spacecraft begins its journey to Jupiter’s moon Europa in October 2024. The campaign, designed to spark global interest in space exploration, also allows participants to create personalized souvenirs and encourages social media engagement. Poet Laureate Ada Limón to Jupiter’s moon Europa on the Europa Clipper mission in 2024. NASA’s “Message in a Bottle” campaign invites the public to add their names to a microchip that will accompany a poem by U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón’s “In Praise of Mystery: A Poem for Europa.” The chip will ride aboard NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft to Jupiter and its moon Europa. The “Message in a Bottle” campaign offers everyone the opportunity to have their name stenciled onto a microchip bearing U.S.
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