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Golden disks carried by Voyager spaceprobes
author: Nasa/Novapix
reference: e-son10-00004
Image Size 300 DPI: 41 * 23 cm
Flying board Voyagers 1 and 2 are identical "golden" records, carrying the story of Earth far into deep space. The 12 inch gold-plated copper discs contain greetings in 60 languages, samples of music from different cultures and eras, and natural and man-made sounds from Earth. They also contain electronic
information that an advanced technological civilization could convert into diagrams and photographs.
The cover of each gold plated aluminum jacket, designed to protect the record from micrometeorite bombardment, also serves a double purpose in providing the finder a key to playing the record. The explanatory diagram appears on both the inner and outer surfaces of the cover, as the outer diagram will be eroded in time.
information that an advanced technological civilization could convert into diagrams and photographs.
The cover of each gold plated aluminum jacket, designed to protect the record from micrometeorite bombardment, also serves a double purpose in providing the finder a key to playing the record. The explanatory diagram appears on both the inner and outer surfaces of the cover, as the outer diagram will be eroded in time.
Keywords for this photo:
1977 - ALIEN - ASTRONOMY - DISK - EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE - MESSAGE - SPACE - SPACECRAFT - SPACEPROBE - VOYAGER - VOYAGER 2 -
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