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The U.S. space agency NASA is people to have their names on a microchip bound for a moon of Jupiter. The spacecraft Europa Clipper will off for Jupiter's moon Europa. The craft is set to on its 2.6-billion-kilometre voyage in October 2024. The journey through the heavens will six years. Sending the names is part of a time-capsule project called "Message in a Bottle". The names will be next to a piece of poetry by U.S. poet Ada Limon called, "In Praise of Mystery: A Poem for Europa". NASA said: "The poem the two water worlds - Earth, to reach out and understand what a world habitable, and Europa, waiting with secrets yet to explored."

More than 700,000 names have already been to NASA. Engineers will an electron beam to them onto a tiny silicon microchip. NASA said: "Each line of text smaller than 1/1000th the width of a human hair (75 nanometres)." It : "Riding on the exterior of the spacecraft, the poem and names will like a message in a bottle as they about 50 close flybys of [Europa's] ocean world." Europa is one of Jupiter's 95 officially recognized moons. The Europa Clipper will data on the moon's atmosphere, icy crust and ocean. NASA said: "Europa such a promising place to better the astro-biological potential for habitable worlds beyond Earth."