By | September 29, 2016 05:22pm ET
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Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Voyager’s Golden Record
NASA’s twin Voyager spacecraft launched in August and September 1977. Aboard each spacecraft is a golden record, a collection of sights, sounds and greetings from Earth. There are 117 images and greetings in 54 languages, with a variety of natural and human-made sounds like storms, volcanoes, rocket launches, airplanes and animals.
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Credit: NASA
The Sounds of Earth
The phonograph records aboard the Voyagers are 12-inch gold-plated copper disks. They contain natural sounds, greetings in 55 languages, and a variety of music from around the world.
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Credit: NASA
Gold Inside and Out
A gold aluminum cover protects the golden record and provides illustrations explaining the recording and how to play it.
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Credit: NASA/JPL
Explanation for Aliens
This chart explains the diagrams on the cover of the Voyager golden record. The instructions are meant to show extraterrestrials what the record is, where it came from, and how to use it.
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Credit: NASA / Handout / Getty Images
Crafted by NASA and Carl Sagan
A Golden Record is prepared to be attached to NASA’s Voyager spacecraft in 1977. NASA and a team led by Carl Sagan worked collaboratively to design the record and decide its contents.
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Credit: NASA
Preparing for the Voyage
A gold-plated record with “The Sounds of Earth” is mounted onto the Voyager 1 spacecraft in 1977.
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Credit: NASA/Carla Cioffi
Only 10 Copies on Earth
Other than the two records on the twin Voyager spacecraft, only 10 copies exist. Here, Suzanne Dodd, Voyager project manager at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) holds a replica of the golden record at a news conference on NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft in 2013 at NASA Headquarters in Washington.
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Credit: Lawrence Azerrad/Ozma Records
Kickstarter Campaign
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Credit: Lawrence Azerrad/Ozma Records
The New Golden Record
The Voyager Golden Record replicas will be heavyweight, translucent gold vinyl LPs. The original Golden Record was gold-plated copper.
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Credit: Lawrence Azerrad/Ozma Records
The Same Gold Cover
The Voyager Golden Record Kickstarter replica comes in a box with the original Golden Record’s cover design.
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