U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón's Poem for Jupiter's Ocean Moon Europa | NASA

U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón's Poem for Jupiter's Ocean Moon Europa | NASA

U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón reads her poem for the Europa Clipper mission during an event with NASA, Thursday, June 1, 2023, in the Coolidge Auditorium at the Library of Congress in Washington.

The original poem, entitled “In Praise of Mystery: A Poem for Europa,” connects two water worlds— Earth and Europa. The poem will be engraved on a plaque carried aboard the Europa Clipper spacecraft as part of NASA’s "Message in a Bottle" campaign, which invites people around the world to sign their names to the poem that will journey to another world. Participants’ names will travel 1.8 billion miles (2.89 billion kilometers) aboard the Europa Clipper spacecraft, set to launch in October 2024, on its voyage to Jupiter and its moons.

Read the poem in Spanish/vea en español [Adobe PDF]: 

https://europa.nasa.gov/internal_resources/449/poem-pdf-test.pdf

The commissioned work was released on June 1, 2023, for NASA’s "Message in a Bottle" campaign, which invites people around the world to sign their names to the poem that will journey to another world. Participants’ names will travel 1.8 billion miles, or 2.89 billion kilometers, aboard the Europa Clipper spacecraft on its voyage to Jupiter and its moons.

The mission is set to launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in October 2024, and reach orbit around Jupiter by 2030. Over several years, it will conduct multiple flybys of Europa, gathering detailed measurements to determine if the moon has conditions suitable for life.

Read the poem, send your name to Europa, and create your own customizable souvenir artwork: https://go.nasa.gov/MessageInABottle 

For more information on the Europa Clipper mission, visit: https://europa.nasa.gov

Image Credit: NASA/Keegan Barber

Release Date: June 2, 2023

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