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The Voyager Golden Record: Earth's Message to Anyone Out There

What is on the records carried by Voyager 1 and 2, and where they are now.

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What is on the Voyager Golden Record?

The Voyager Golden Records are two gold-plated copper phonograph records launched aboard NASA's Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 in 1977. Assembled by a committee chaired by Carl Sagan, each holds 115 images, greetings in 55 languages, natural sounds and music from many cultures, with instructions for playing it. Both spacecraft have since left the heliosphere and are traveling through interstellar space.

Timeline

  1. 1977A NASA committee chaired by Carl Sagan selects the record's contents.
  2. August 20 and September 5, 1977Voyager 2 and Voyager 1 launch from Cape Canaveral.
  3. 1979 to 1989The probes fly past Jupiter, Saturn, and in Voyager 2's case Uranus and Neptune.
  4. August 2012Voyager 1 enters interstellar space.
  5. November 2018Voyager 2 enters interstellar space.

What is documented, and what is not

On the record

  • The records and their contents are fully published by NASA.
  • Both probes are still sending data, though their power is running down.

Disputed or unproven

  • Nothing on the record has ever been answered. Claims of a reply are fiction.

Common questions

What languages are on the Golden Record?

Spoken greetings in 55 languages, from ancient ones such as Akkadian to modern languages.

Where is Voyager 1 now?

In interstellar space, more than 15 billion miles from Earth, and still sending data.

Who chose what went on the Golden Record?

A committee chaired by astronomer Carl Sagan.

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