NASA’s New Horizons space probe is expected to finish studying Pluto next summer, and now there are plans to send a digital message from Earth to the probe in case it encounters any alien intelligence. Jon Lomberg, who worked on a similar project with Carl Sagan in the 1970s called the Golden Record that was sent onboard Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, decided to transmit a message to the New Horizons space probe before it travels outside of our solar system.

NASA’s New Horizons space probe is expected to finish studying Pluto next summer, and now there are plans to send a digital message from Earth to the probe in case it encounters any alien intelligence.

Jon Lomberg has worked on a similar project with Carl Sagan in the 1970s called the Golden Record that was sent onboard Voyager 1 and Voyager 2. He wants to transmit a message to the New Horizons space probe before it travels outside of our solar system.

The project is called One Earth Message, but since the New Horizons mission was launched in 2006, experts will have to digitally transmit the information to the probe, which is around 300 million miles away from our planet.

In order to decide what images should be included in the message, Lomberg is working with Albert Yu-Min Lin, a research scientist at the University of California, San Diego to collect ideas from groups of people around the world that everyone will be able to vote on.

The contents of the message will ultimately be decided by NASA officials, but you can enter your own message for review starting next year.