NASA’s Voyager 1 traveled beyond the edge of our solar system at the end of the last year. What happens to the spacecraft now is completely unknown, but should an intelligent species come across it drifting through space, they’ll find a golden record embedded with images and sounds representative of Earth’s inhabitants. In 1977, both the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 launched with a copy of the time capsule, which contained recordings of natural sounds, greetings in a wide variety of languages, analog photos of the planet and its species, and, of course, instructions on how to play the record. If you care about the first-impression the human race might be giving to aliens, the record’s contents have been collected and organized for your audio and visual pleasure.
What will aliens find on the Voyager’s golden record?
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