NASA launched two golden records into space on Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 in 1977 as a way to teach other civilizations about life on Earth if they ever came across the probes. The twin spacecraft ...

Voyager's Golden Record is a 12-inch gold-plated copper disk, encoded with music, sounds and images from Earth. Its aluminum cover is engraved with instructions, and a unique galactic map.

Each Voyager spacecraft has 65,000 individual parts. Photograph taken on October 8, 1976. Lamination bonding of the golden record. The 12-inch records were mastered in lacquer, cut from copper ...

Both carry the Golden Record, a collection of images and sounds selected by Carl Sagan and associates. The post Voyager 1 is sending binary gibberish to Earth from 15.1 billion miles away appeared ...

Hurtling ever deeper into space are two very special Golden Records, sent to the outer solar system aboard the Voyager probes. As well as 115 images, a variety of natural sounds and greetings in ...

wrote a short message in 1977 for inclusion, as an image, on two golden records affixed to the Voyager spacecrafts. His words are among dozens of images, greetings and music recordings meant to ...

If aliens ever snag one of our interstellar envoys, like one of the Voyager spacecraft ... over why we’d encode images on a phonograph record, another team will be tearing apart – an 8 ...

Cheng came up with the idea of using podcasts to tell a story after learning about the Voyager Golden Records – two phonograph records containing sounds and images showing the diversity of life ...