Voyager reappears from deep space: the golden records it carries inside

NASA continues to do its missions in space and now aims to do just that Unload the Europa Clipper probe into a Falcon Heavy rocket SpaceX Next October. The purpose of this mission, if clarified by the space agency, is to mandate Jupiter’s moon Europa has a habitable environment. An additional 2,500 million kilometers would have to be traveled to reach the Moon An engraved metal plate similar to the gold records of Voyager studies.

These discs were made to order in the 70s Carl SaganNASA astronomer and astrophysicist Send a “message to the universe” capable of surviving for millions of years. Now, 50 years later, the space agency is trying to repeat the feat by sending a saucer Contains representative information about our planet. To transmit this information, NASA launched a campaign.News in a bottle” inspires thousands of people Attach their names to a microchip that will be added to the plate.

After several months, the campaign ended More than 2.6 million people participated. Technicians at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory looked for a way to engrave all the names on coin-sized pieces of silicon. Finally, they A electron beam to produce lines of text one-thousandth smaller (75 nanometers) than a human hair.

Recorded message

As shared by NASA, the metal plate is decorated on both sides. A number of elements such as are engraved A bottle floats next to Jupiter’s moons in orbitA poem entitled, ‘In Price of Mystery: A Boom for Europe’, handwritten specifically for the work of American poet Ada Limon; A portrait Ronald GreeleyA professor at Arizona State University who died in 2011 and whose contributions laid the foundation for the work, and its equation, which assesses the possibility of finding life beyond Earth.

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On the other side of the plate, scientists recorded several visual representations of sound waves Represents the work of a group of linguists who compiled the word “water” in 103 languages.

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