Explore the inner workings of NASA's Microdevices Laboratory at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, where your name could embark on a celestial journey to Jupiter's moon Europa through NASA's "Message in a Bottle" campaign. Technicians, wielding an electron beam, delicately stencil names onto microchips, each line of text finer than 1/1000th the width of a human hair. These microchips, adorned with names, will be affixed to a metal plate featuring a special poem, "In Praise of Mystery," penned by U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón in celebration of the mission. This plate will then grace the exterior of the Europa Clipper spacecraft.

The Europa Clipper mission, striving to uncover the potential habitability of Europa, involves shipping the completed spacecraft from JPL to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, with a scheduled launch in October 2024. As a unique opportunity, you can contribute to this cosmic venture by adding your name to the "Message in a Bottle" campaign until December 31, 2023.

You can add your name to the “Message in a Bottle” campaign through Dec. 31, 2023. To sign, go to: https://go.nasa.gov/MessageInABottle

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

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