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Send Your Name to Jupiter

You’re invited to sign your name to a poem written by the U.S. Poet Laureate, Ada Limón. The poem connects two water worlds — Earth, yearning to reach out and understand what makes a world habitable, and Europa, waiting with secrets yet to be explored.

The poem will be engraved on Europa Clipper, along with participants' names that will be physically etched onto microchips mounted on the spacecraft. Together, the poem and names will travel 1.8 billion miles to the Jupiter system.

Signing up is easy! Just go to this site to sign your name to the poem and get on board. We also have a Spanish-language site where you can send your name en español: Envía tu nombre aquí.

The Europa Clipper launch window opens in October 2024, but don’t wait – everyone’s names need to be received by December 31 this year so they can be loaded onto the spacecraft in time. We hope you’ll be riding along with us! Follow the mission at europa.nasa.gov.

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The world is oftentimes such an ugly place, but sometimes it can be so beautiful.

Like, when two choirs, one from Croatia and the other from Zimbabwe, met on the opposite sides of a Lisbon subway station and both sang to each other.

I unfortunately do not know what the Zimbabwe children choir sang to them (although it was so beautiful), but the Croatian klapa Kastav sang 'Kuća puna naroda' (a house full of people).

And let my reward be a house full of people, my life, give me a voice, so I can embrace you with songs.

Video source: Irena Grdinić

i think that every day after work big man goes home to an even bigger man

Mottled sea stars (Evasterias troscheli) and flat bottom sea stars (Asterias amurensis) clinging to the ferry pier pilings in Homer, Alaska. 

tumblr tuesday: some excellent art

It's been a whole week since we celebrated our creative community on a Tuesday. So here we are. That's what this is.

@z33b:

@leeshannonart:

@wrenwrought::

@telekitnetic-art:

@yixique:

@aubryjoi:

@rosebous:

@wingedog:

@trashedinpluto-jpg:

@xenodogartz:

@critterpdf:

@ghostlyfirnen:

@bugcowboyart:

@turrondeluxe:

@runicpixels:

@vaer:

@toriascreebs:

@the-meme-monarch:

@wis-art:

@mossyartworks:

@hrokkall:

@poniesart:

@chrysanthemumskies:

@butchfriend: