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Summary
A gold-plated copper disc that contains sounds and images selected to portray the diversity of life and culture on Earth. Includes 115 images, a variety of natural sounds, 90-minutes of musical selections from different cultures and eras, and spoken greetings from Earth-people in fifty-five languages. In addition, it includes printed messages from President Jimmy Carter and U.N. Secretary General Kurt Waldheim.
NASA produced this recording in 1977 to accompany the Voyager 1 and 2 interstellar spacecraft.
Etched into matrix area: "to the makers of music--all worlds, all times."
Tags
voyager project us
physical objects
eng
finding our place in the cosmos from galileo to sagan and beyond
motion picture broadcasting and recorded sound division
jimmy carter
united states national aeronautics and space administration
kurt waldheim
high resolution
library of congress
geography
travel and description
Date
01/01/1977
Source
Library of Congress
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Copyright info
Public Domain