Voyager Golden Record
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The Voyager Golden Records are two identical phonograph records which were included aboard the two Voyager spacecraft launched in 1977. The records contain sounds and images selected to portray the diversity of life and culture on Earth, and are intended for any intelligent extraterrestrial life form who may find them. The records are a time capsule.
The Voyager Golden Record
Cover of the Voyager Golden Record
Preparation for the record's packaging before the launch of Voyager 2
Phonograph record
Voyager program
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The Voyager program is an American scientific program that employs two interstellar probes, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2. They were launched in 1977 to take advantage of a favorable alignment of the two gas giants Jupiter and Saturn and the ice giants, Uranus and Neptune, to fly near them while collecting data for transmission back to Earth. After launch, the decision was made to send Voyager 2 near Uranus and Neptune to collect data for transmission back to Earth.
A poster of the planets and moons visited during the Voyager program.
A view of some of Voyager's instruments from below. Left: the cameras, ultraviolet and infrared spectrometers (far left), plasma detector (black box lower right), particle and radiation detectors (far right). On the boom, center and right, are plasma, particle, and cosmic ray detectors.
Voyager's fully extended 13-meter-long magnetometer boom
This diagram about the heliosphere was released on 28 June 2013 and incorporates results from the Voyager spacecraft.