Voyager Golden Record
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The Voyager Golden Records are two identical phonograph records, with one copy aboard each of the two Voyager spacecraft launched in 1977. The records contain sounds and data to reconstruct raster sca
The Voyager Golden Record
Cover of the Voyager Golden Record
The golden record's location on Voyager (middle-bottom-left)
Preparation for the record's packaging before the launch of Voyager 2
Pioneer plaque
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The Pioneer plaques are a pair of gold-anodized aluminium plaques that were placed on board the 1972 Pioneer 10 and 1973 Pioneer 11 spacecraft, featuring a pictorial message, in case either Pioneer 10
Voyager Golden Record
…interstellar space, the region between stars where the galactic plasma is present. Like their predecessors Pioneer 10 and 11, which featured a simple plaque (the idea of Eric Burgess and Carl Sagan), both Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 were launched by NASA with a message aboard—a kind of time capsule, intended…
The illustration on the Pioneer plaque
The plaque attached to Pioneer 10