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Ada Limon: A poem for Nasa

Follows US poet laureate Ada Lim贸n as she crafts an original poem dedicated to Nasa鈥檚 Europa Clipper mission to Jupiter鈥檚 icy moon

In the Studio follows US poet laureate Ada Lim贸n as she crafts an original poem dedicated to Nasa鈥檚 Europa Clipper mission to Jupiter鈥檚 icy moon. Her poem will be engraved on the Clipper spacecraft, which will launch in 2024 and travel 1.8 billion miles to reach Europa - a journey that will last six years.

We follow Ada鈥檚 creative process over several months, from her first meetings with the Nasa team, through many drafts of the poem and a visit to Nasa's jet propulsion laboratory in California to see the Europa Clipper under construction. In this update, we hear the finished poem.

Producer/presenter: Mair Bosworth
Executive producer: Stephen Hughes

(Photo: Ada Limon. Credit: Stacia Brady)

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Tue 13 Jun 2023 22:32GMT

NASA's Message in a Bottle for Europa

NASA's Message in a Bottle for Europa
NASA are now inviting members of the public to add their names to fly with the poem 鈥 like a聽message in a bottle from Earth 鈥 traveling billions of miles as the mission investigates聽whether the ocean thought to lie beneath Europa鈥檚 icy crust could support life.

As part of聽the 鈥淢essage in a Bottle鈥 campaign, names received before midnight on 31st December 2003 will be聽stenciled onto a microchip, to accompany the original poem by Lim贸n, titled 鈥淚n Praise of聽Mystery: A Poem for Europa.鈥

To sign, read the poem and hear Lim贸n read the poem in an animated video, go to:go.nasa.gov/MessageInABottle.

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