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 ...

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 ...

A golden record is mounted on the outside of each ... and a pulsar map that provides information on how to locate Earth. The 1800-pound Voyager 1 spacecraft was launched aboard a Titan-Centaur ...

Each golden record measures 12 inches in diameter and ... the farthest from Earth human-made objects have ever traveled. Voyager 1 left the heliosphere and reached interstellar space in August ...

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.

Voyager 1 – and its sibling, Voyager 2 – were always meant to be a testament to humanity’s ingenuity. When they left Earth in the summer of 1977, they did so carrying a record that was ...