Douglas Vakoch of METI International explains how NASA drew on the organisation's expertise at attempting to contact extraterrestrial intelligence to help craft a message to Europa
, to draw on our expertise at attempting to contact extraterrestrial intelligence and help craft a symbolic missive engraved on a tantalum plate attached to the spacecraft – greetings from one water world to another.We helped create two parts of the message. First, we collected a globally representative sample of audio recordings of the word for water in 103 languages, showing each as a waveform on the outward-facing side of the panel that protects sensitive scientific instruments.
On the other, inward-facing side , we designed the scientific part of the message. This describes water in terms of the “water hole”, the band of frequencies between the hydrogen and hydroxyl emission lines in the radio spectrum where many early searches for intelligence beyond Earth were conducted., which estimates the number of extraterrestrial civilisations in our galaxy; a microchip with the names of 2.
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