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Voyager Golden Record
Also known as: Voyager Interstellar Records
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An Analysis of the Humanity's Messages to Extraterrestrial Intelligent ... sociostudies.org 8 facts
claimThe Voyager Golden Record includes images of mathematical, physical, chemical, and anatomical information, as well as scenes of everyday life, architecture, human interactions, and nature.
claimThe Voyager Golden Record contains messages from then U.S. President Jimmy Carter and U.N. Secretary General Kurt Waldheim, which emphasize peace, friendship, and the status of humanity as a global civilization.
referenceNASA maintains the Voyager Golden Record, a project documenting humanity for potential extraterrestrial discovery, as detailed on their official website.
claimThe Voyager Golden Record features a silhouette of a human figure rather than a nude depiction, following criticism of the nudity in the Pioneer Plaque picture.
accountCarl Sagan utilized a non-ethnocentric approach to select the musical content for the Voyager Golden Record, consulting historians, anthropologists, and musicologists.
claimThe Voyager Golden Record was placed aboard the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecrafts, which were launched in 1977 and are currently the most distant human-made objects in outer space, located in the interstellar medium beyond the Solar System.
claimThe Voyager Golden Record contains audio impressions including laughter, footsteps, engines, natural sounds, animal sounds, spoken greetings in 55 languages, and 90 minutes of music comprising folk, classical, jazz, and pop compositions.
accountThe Voyager Golden Record was prepared by a committee of scientists and technicians chaired by Carl Sagan, who spent almost one year selecting the content.
Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence | Centauri Dreams centauri-dreams.org Jul 31, 2012 2 facts
claimThe music collection included on the Voyager Interstellar Records represents one of the first collections of world music ever assembled.
claimThe Pioneer Plaques and Voyager Interstellar Records serve as physical artifacts currently traveling through the Milky Way galaxy, intended as messages for potential extraterrestrial intelligence.