In the creation of this Golden Record, a committee led by astrophysicist Carl Sagan selected images representing life on Earth, a variety of audio and musical recordings, and spoken greetings from different cultures-all of which were encrypted in each record. Installed in each Voyager was a Golden Record of humanity and the natural environment. Much to the amazement of scientists, both spacecraft are still traveling at incredible speeds and continue to send data back to us from great distances. Voyager 1 has a twin, conveniently called Voyager 2, and both spacecraft were launched by NASA in 1977, which fell perfectly within the window of a “once-in-a-lifetime” planetary alignment.Ĥ5 years and counting, the Voyager Program holds the record for the longest running NASA mission. That tiny dust-like particle is Earth, and the photo was named the “Pale Blue Dot.” ON FEBRUARY 14, 1990, at a distance of billions of miles from the Sun, NASA’s Voyager 1 took a photo of what looks like a tiny bluish speck in the middle of a single ray of light.
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