Facts about Voyager Golden Record
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Electroplated with gold, the Voyager Golden Record is made of copper and designed to last over one billion years in the vacuum of space.
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Diagrams depicting human reproduction, including a nude male and female figure, were included in the Voyager Golden Record's 115 images to communicate biological information about Earth's dominant species.
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President Jimmy Carter's message on the Voyager Golden Record expressed hope that the spacecraft would someday be intercepted by extraterrestrial life as a token of human friendship.
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A phonograph stylus and instructions for playing the Voyager Golden Record were etched directly onto its gold-plated copper surface so extraterrestrials could decode its contents without external technology.
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Ninety minutes of audio containing sounds of Earth like rainfall, footsteps, and whale songs were encoded onto the Voyager Golden Record alongside its musical and spoken content.
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Carl Sagan chaired the NASA committee that selected 115 images of Earth for the Voyager Golden Record to represent human civilization visually.
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Greetings in 55 languages were recorded on the Voyager Golden Record, with a child's voice delivering the first message in English before speakers of Mandarin, Spanish, and Hindi followed.
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The 1977 Voyager Golden Record contains 27 musical selections spanning genres from Bach to Chuck Berry, reaching potential extraterrestrial audiences across the cosmos.