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 ...

Each Voyager spacecraft has 65,000 individual parts. Photograph taken on October 8, 1976. Lamination bonding of the golden record ... and another smaller satellite (Mimas) is visible against ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Launched 40 years ago, the Voyager space probes are on a grand ... JPL attached to each probe a copy of the “golden record” that contains music, photographs, and sounds of Earth for the ...