A poem for Europa Clipper: US Poet Laureate Ada Limón reveals ode to fly on NASA Jupiter moon mission

Poet Laureate Ada Limón in a blue suit looking out over a NASA clean room

"It is not darkness that unites us, not the cold distance of space, but the offering of water..."

Those words, written by U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón, are part of an ode that will fly on a robotic probe to a distant icy moon. Now, with the poem's reveal, the Library of Congress is inviting the public to add their names to Limón's tribute, like a message in a bottle from Earth to the Jupiter moon Europa.