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US space agency NASA will launch the Europa Clipper mission to Jupiter’s water moon in October this year and along with the spacecraft will send a unique message that has been recorded in Hindi and other languages.
The moon shows strong evidence of an ocean beneath its icy crust, with more than twice the amount of water of all of Earth’s oceans combined, and scientists have a message taped and recorded on the spacecraft in 103 languages, including Hindi.
The message is engraved on a 7-by-11-inch plaque made of metallic tantalum. The plaque has graphic elements on both sides, which are recordings of the word water in more than 100 languages spoken on Earth, highlighting the planet’s connection to Europe.
NASA said linguists collected recordings of the word “water” spoken in 103 languages around the world. The audio files were then converted into waveforms (visual representations of sound waves) and recorded on the board. The waveforms radiate from a symbol representing the American Sign Language sign for “water.”
One of the waveforms on the board says “paani” the word water as pronounced in Hindi.
The message takes the idea from the golden disk sent aboard the Voyager mission, which travels outside the Solar System in interstellar space.
“The content and design of the Europa Clipper vault plaque are full of meaning. The board combines the best that humanity has to offer across the universe: science, technology, education, art and mathematics. “The message of connection through water, essential to all life as we know it, perfectly illustrates Earth’s connection to this mysterious ocean world we intend to explore,” said Lori Glaze, director of the Division of Planetary Sciences. .
In addition to the linguistic plaque, the spacecraft also carries an engraving of American poet laureate Ada Limón’s manuscript “In Praise of Mystery: A Poem for Europe,” along with a silicon microchip stamped with more than 2.6 million names. sent by people from all over the world. world.
Meanwhile, the artwork on the inner side of the plaque includes a reference to radio frequencies considered plausible for interstellar communication, symbolizing how humanity uses this radio band to listen to messages from the cosmos.
Europa Clipper’s main scientific goal is to determine if there are places beneath Europa, Jupiter’s icy moon, that could support life.