Voyager Golden Record

In 1977, NASA launched the Voyager space probes 1 and 2 to study the outer solar system. Included on the Voyager probes is the Golden Record, intended as a message in the event that one of the probes is eventually found by life forms outside of our solar system. Carl Sagan, and other members of a NASA committee, assembled the Golden Record as a way to portray life on Earth in the form of sounds and images. The record features spoken greetings in 55 different languages and contains samples of other human sounds like laughter, music and nature sounds such as animal calls and weather patterns. It also contains 116 images, including equations, diagrams and photos, some of which were selected from the UN Photo Library.