What was the purpose for the recordings sent on the Voyager spacecraft?

The Voyager Golden Records are two phonograph records that were included aboard both Voyager spacecraft launched in 1977. The records contain sounds and images selected to portray the diversity of life and culture on Earth, and are intended for any intelligent extraterrestrial life form who may find them.

What have the Voyager missions been able to teach us about what is beyond our solar system?

Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft to study all four of the solar system’s giant planets at close range. At Uranus, Voyager 2 discovered 10 new moons and two new rings. Voyager 2 was the first human-made object to fly by Neptune. At Neptune, Voyager 2 discovered five moons, four rings, and a “Great Dark Spot.”

What would you put on a golden record?

— A selection of sounds from Earth. This ranges from natural sounds, like storms and volcanoes, to human-made noises such as trains, airplane and rocket take-offs, animals, tools being used, and a mother kissing a child.

Whose message is on the record that was flown with one of the Voyager spacecraft?

The first audio section contains a spoken greeting in English from then-Secretary-General of the United Nations Kurt Waldheim.

What is the message on Voyager 1?

If one such civilization intercepts Voyager and can understand these recorded contents, here is our message: “This is a present from a small, distant world, a token of our sounds, our science, our images, our music, our thoughts and our feelings. We are attempting to survive our time so we may live into yours.

What was the impact did the Voyager have on science and society?

The Voyagers discovered many moons around the planets we never knew were there. And even the ones we knew were there were literally just points of light in telescopes before that. All of sudden they changed to geologic objects, to worlds that had weather and volcanoes and tectonics.

What has Voyager discovered?

Voyager 1 is the first human-made object to venture into interstellar space. Voyager 1 discovered a thin ring around Jupiter and two new Jovian moons: Thebe and Metis. At Saturn, Voyager 1 found five new moons and a new ring called the G-ring.

Why didn’t the golden record include war?

When considering photographs to include, the panel was careful to try to eliminate those that could be misconstrued. Though war is a reality of human existence, images of it might send an aggressive message when the record was intended as a friendly gesture.

What do the symbols on the golden record mean?

The drawing containing two circles in the lower right-hand corner is a drawing of the hydrogen atom in its two lowest states, with a connecting line and digit 1 to indicate that the time interval associated with the transition from one state to the other is to be used as the fundamental time scale, both for the time …