Spacecraft can send messages to aliens

After performing the task of exploring the solar system, an exploration ship by the US Aerospace Agency (NASA) could end the mission by delivering messages to alien civilizations.

Send messages to aliens

The New Horizons spacecraft is expected to arrive at Pluto on July 14. According to the One Earth Message project , NASA calls on people around the world to contribute images, sounds and ideas to deliver the message to the spacecraft and send it to aliens.

Simulate New Horizons to Pluto.(Photo: NASA)

If NASA officially approved this project, the team would be allowed to send 150 megabytes of data to New Horizons. Then, One Earth Message can store about 100 images and one hour of audio.

According to Space, designing a message that alien civilizations can understand is not a simple or easy task. Jon Lomberg, who joined the project, said one of their challenges was finding a way to encode the message so it could attract attention and be recognized. They plan to broadcast the message soonest in July 2016 , or may postpone it until the ship flies through the second object in 2019.

One Earth Message is expected to attract the attention of the international community on New Horizons program in particular and space exploration activities in general. By July this year, NASA 's New Horizons probe will complete a nearly-decade-long journey to Pluto - which has never been visited by Earth's probe before.