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UPDATE: 1/30/24 3:30PM: This article has been updated to include Ann Druyan’s role in the Voyager Golden Record project. We regret the omission. The PopSci team has tested hundreds of products ...
The Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 space probes continue to captivate scientists and space enthusiasts alike with their ...
Voyager 1 is currently 14.6 billion miles from home ... Each one carries a Golden Record, which looks like vinyl but is made of metal. A team of scientists and artists, including Sagan and ...
Still transmitting data from more than 15 billion miles away, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft is fully operations after months of ...
How NASA is trying to fix the aging Voyager 1 : Short Wave The Voyager 1 space probe is the farthest human-made object in space. It launched in 1977 with a golden record on board that carried ...
Voyager 1 – and its sibling, Voyager 2 – were always meant to be a testament to humanity’s ingenuity. When they left Earth in the summer of 1977, they did so carrying a record that was ...
NASA's been slowly shutting down non-essential instruments on the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft to save power. Aboard each spacecraft is a golden record, with images, sounds, greetings, and music ...
The call of a humpback whale, a Navajo night chant and the brain waves of a woman falling in love… these are just some of the sounds recorded on NASA’s Golden Record, the phonograph time ...
Voyager 1 is currently the farthest spacecraft from ... the power supply on both spacecraft in recent years to allow their record-breaking missions to continue. “The Voyagers are performing ...
NASA launched two small probes carrying a pair of gold-plated copper records that would soon become the farthest human-made objects from Earth ever created. The probes — named Voyager 1 and 2 ...