如何将你的名字送去木卫二?
NASA又整活了,邀请公众填写自己的名字,伴随欧罗巴快船(Europa Clipper)任务,航行2.9亿公里(1.8亿英里),前往木星轨道,通过一系列的飞越,来研究木卫二,这是一个可能支持生命存在的海洋世界。
木卫二快船预计于2024年10月发射升空,发射窗口期21天,预计于2030年4月抵达。报名地址详见:
https://europa.nasa.gov/message-in-a-bottle/sign-on/
另外一同前往的还有美国诗人艾达·李蒙(Ada Limón)写的一首诗,《赞美神秘:献给木卫二的诗》
听艾达朗读这首诗
In Praise of Mystery: A Poem for Europa
Arching under the night sky
inky with black expansiveness, we point
to the planets we know, we
pin quick wishes on stars. From earth,
we read the sky as if it is an unerring
book of the universe, expert and evident.
Still, there are mysteries below our sky:
the whale song, the songbird singing
its call in the bough of a wind-shaken tree.
We are creatures of constant awe,
curious at beauty, at leaf and blossom,
at grief and pleasure, sun and shadow.
And it is not darkness that unites us,
not the cold distance of space, but
the offering of water, each drop of rain,
each rivulet, each pulse, each vein.
O second moon, we, too, are made
of water, of vast and beckoning seas.
We, too, are made of wonders, of great
and ordinary loves, of small invisible worlds,
of a need to call out through the dark.
WRITTEN BY U.S. POET LAUREATE:Ada Limón
赞美神秘:献给木卫二的诗
在漆黑的夜空下拱起,
黑色的宇宙无垠,
我们指着我们所知道的行星,我们
将愿望匆匆系在星星上。从地球上,
我们阅读天空,就好像它是一本准确无误的宇宙之书,
专业而明了。
尽管如此,我们的天空下仍有未解之谜:
鲸鱼的歌声,鸣唱的鸟儿
在被风吹动的树枝上呼唤。
我们是永远敬畏的生物,
对美、叶子和花朵好奇,
在悲伤和快乐中,在阳光和阴影中。
而让我们团结的不是黑暗,
不是冷酷的太空距离,
而是水的馈赠,每一滴雨水,
每一条小溪,每一次脉搏,每一条血脉。
哦,木星的第二个卫星,
我们也是由水构成,由广袤而诱人的海洋构成。
我们也是奇迹的构成,伟大和平凡的爱,
小小的看不见的世界,
对在黑暗中呼唤的需求。
作者:美国桂冠诗人艾达·李蒙