The pauses represent the gaps in data as Voyager 1 hit some snags in beaming data back to Earth as it traveled farther and farther away into the cosmos. The presentation of measurements as sound ...

The Voyager 1 space probe is the farthest human-made object in space. It launched in 1977 with a golden record on board that carried assorted sounds of our home planet: greetings in many different ...

A performance of Austrian composer Johann Strauss II's The Blue Danube was beamed into space for an unusual audience over the ...

Voyager 1 carries a gold-plated phonograph record containing greetings in 55 languages, music, natural sounds, and encoded images, designed as a message to potential extraterrestrial civilizations.

Before we get to our intriguing sound file, here's NASA's poetic explanation, which speaks of "unexpected gifts" and "violin strings": Voyager 1 does not have a working plasma sensor, so ...

Voyager 1 is currently 14.6 billion miles from ... who died last Friday, packed music, nature sounds, messages, photos, and more on each record—and they included players and instructions ...

Druyan compiled a sound essay of the history of Earth ... all times,” serving as the only example of human handwriting on each Voyager mission. When the Voyager probes launched in 1977, no ...

along with the sounds of Earth. "The science mission will end. But a part of Voyager and a part of us will continue on in the space between the stars," says Spilker, noting that the golden records ...

As part of their one-way mission, both Voyager spacecraft also carry copies of the “Golden Records,” gold plated copper discs containing sounds and images from Earth that were curated by the ...