![]() ![]() United Nations Greetings/Whale Songs (4:04).Greetings from Kurt Waldheim, Secretary General of the United Nations (0:44).Images of Earth note includes excerpt from Beethoven's "Cavatina" (8:32).įriends of space, how are you all? Have you listened yet? The audio portion of the record as a whole (minus a song and an image) can be viewed for free on YouTube here. They are currently available for sale as either a 3-LP box set or as a 2-CD compilation. ![]() While they only needed $198,000 to fund the project, they managed to raise $1.36 million note 54 ½ times more money than was allocated for the records themselves!, making it the most successful musical crowdfunding campaign to date. However, in 2017, forty years after the Voyagers' launch, Ozma Records funded a Kickstarter campaign to (metaphorically) bring the musical portion of the Records back to Earth as a vinyl box set. Only ten copies of the original pressing remain on Earth, making it then the rarest album ever made note until the release of Wu-Tang Clan's Once Upon a Time in Shaolin. While neither is targeted toward a specific star, they both will pass within 2 light-years of separate stars about 400,000 years into the future note and even if they ceremonially used all the rest of their fuel to direct them there, they would only fly as close as 1 light-year from those stars. Being powered by radioactive decay, the probes will no longer be able to power themselves by 2025, after which their main purpose will be carrying these Golden Records to whoever will find them. The probes would discover many things about the outer planets before taking the famous " Pale Blue Dot " image and entering interstellar space in the 2010s. In 1977, the Voyagers were launched toward Jupiter, slingshotting them out of the Solar System toward Saturn and beyond. The cover, made of uranium-plated aluminum, showed how to play it with the included needle and cartridge, as well as how to decode the included images. The record was cast in gold-plated copper instead of vinyl to withstand the harsh conditions of space, and designed to be spun at half the rate of a regular record to fit as much information as possible on twelve inches of grooves. ![]() The record, titled The Sounds of Earth, contained greetings from people in 55 languages, whale songs, a sonic essay about the formation of Earth and the development of humanity, images from across the Solar System involving chemistry and humanity, a selection of 27 compositions from around the world, and the brainwaves of a woman newly in love note this woman was Carl Sagan's future wife Ann Druyan the two had just confessed their love for each other mere days before the recording, despite both being married to other people at the time. With only a brief six-week time frame and a paltry $25,000 budget, Sagan and his team still managed to illustrate the diversity of humanity. After a few weeks of brainstorming with another person, Carl Sagan came up with the idea of a 12-inch record containing sounds, music, and images of Earth. These were intended to carry replicas of the Pioneer Plaques originally, but given that these could return further science than the Pioneer probes, a simple plaque was not enough. Shortly thereafter, the Voyager probes, 1 and 2, were created to take advantage of a specific once-in-two-centuries alignment of planets that would allow consecutive flybys of all five outer planets with a single launch note Voyager 1 flew by Saturn's moon Titan and thus out of the plane of the Solar System, but it could have flown by Pluto if Titan wasn't so valuable. The mission planners knew that these spacecraft would never return to the Solar System, so they carried two identical plaque featuring the image of a human male and female, a map of pulsars to locate the probe, and a schematic of their trajectories through the Solar System note Pioneer 11's diagram did not show it visiting Saturn-NASA only diverted it toward Saturn to test out flyby procedures for the upcoming Voyager probes. Pioneer 10 visited Jupiter before making its way out to the edge of the Solar System, and Pioneer 11 used Jupiter's gravity to swing it over the top of the Sun all the way to Saturn. In the 1970s, NASA was preparing their first missions to the outer planets-Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. ![]()
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