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Voyager Golden Records 40 years later: Real audience was always here on Earth

  • Written by Jason Wright, Associate Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pennsylvania State University
imageWhat message would you send to outer space?NASA/JPL-Caltech, CC BY

Forty years ago, NASA launched Voyager I and II to explore the outer solar system. The twin spacecraft both visited Jupiter and Saturn; from there Voyager I explored the hazy moon Titan, while Voyager II became the first (and, to date, only) probe to explore Uranus and Neptune....

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