NASA sent a panel engraved with waveforms to Jupiter’s moon. Here’s what the squiggles mean

NASA enlisted designer Debbie Millman to help create a panel for the Europa Clipper mission with a message to connect two planets.

If there’s one thing NASA is inarguably brilliant at, it’s recognizing possibility. And that’s exactly what happened when engineers working on the Europa Clipper spotted a flat, otherwise unremarkable piece of metal protecting some critical electronics of the space probe, and emailed Preston Dyches about it.