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Topic: Voyager 'Sounds of Earth' now on SoundCloud
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onesmallstep
Member Posts: 1310
From: Staten Island, New York USA
Registered: Nov 2007
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posted 08-03-2015 11:15 AM
   
The tracks carried on the golden records mounted on the sides of the planetary spacecraft Voyagers 1 and 2 are now available through SoundCloud, courtesy of NASA. They include greetings in many languages, Earth and man-made sounds, Mozart, Chuck Berry - but no Beatles. Both spacecraft are much farther away from the Earth and sun than Pluto, recently explored by New Horizons. Neptune was the farthest planet explored by Voyager 2 in 1989, and Voyager 1 made history in August 2012 by becoming the first probe to enter interstellar space. Voyager 1 remains the farthest spacecraft from Earth. Both Voyagers are still in contact with NASA's Deep Space Network. In about 300 years, Voyager 1 will enter the Oort cloud but it will have ceased communications with Earth around 2025. |
Blackarrow
Member Posts: 3118
From: Belfast, United Kingdom
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 08-05-2015 04:11 PM
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Originally posted by onesmallstep:
Both spacecraft are much farther away from the Earth and sun than Pluto, recently explored by New Horizons. Neptune was the farthest planet explored by Voyager 2 in 1989...
Let's not forget that at the time (August 1989) when Voyager 2 explored Neptune, Pluto was actually closer to the Sun than Neptune. |
Jonnyed
Member Posts: 396
From: Dumfries, VA, USA
Registered: Aug 2014
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posted 08-05-2015 08:27 PM
I read a funny story about NASA's Golden Record when reading John Eliot Gardiner's recent biography of J.S. Bach.When Carl Sagan was chairing the committee of distinguished scientists and thinkers assembled by NASA to determine which sounds and information should be included on the Golden Record, the topic of music came up. The group felt that if an alien species came across the record and could listen to it, they should hear some of Earth's music. One of the scientists on the committee — I can't remember specifically, I think it was one of the biologists in the group — said, "Hey, we should include the complete works of J.S. Bach." And then he thought a little bit and said, "No wait. That would be bragging." | |
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