Sending extraterrestrial civilizations

This unique gold plate was put into deep space in 1977 on board the spaceship "Voyager". He had already flown past Saturn and Jupiter, and now heads straight for the border of the solar system. Perhaps thousands of years this record will find the aliens and learn about the existence of our civilization. Read on




Gold album "Voyager" is a copper plate with an information recording audio and video,
packaged in an aluminum case. The plate has a diameter of 12 inches (about 30 cm)
and covered in gold for protection from erosion under the influence of cosmic dust.
At the plate in case the capsule and packaged phonographic needle for playback.
In the case engraved with a diagram showing the installation of a needle on the surface of the recording,
playback speed and a way to convert video into images. As on the album "Pioneer»,
shows a diagram of the radiation of the hydrogen atom for the metric and time units,
and a map of pulsars, which marked the position of the Sun in the Galaxy.