The 12-inch gold-plated copper disks also include ... according to a NASA update posted in August. While the golden records on the Voyager spacecraft are expected to last over a billion years ...

It is comprised of images and audio which explain to extraterrestrial civilizations what life on Earth consists of. The two records today travel abroad the two Voyager spacecraft in hopes of one day ...

The encapsulation of the Voyager Development Test ... diagrams and photographs. The gold-plated aluminum covers were designed to protect the golden records from micrometeorite bombardment, and ...

The data from the Voyager record is downloaded as a .mp3 file. This file is converted into a two arrays holding floating point PCM samples of the right and left channels. These channels are then ...

wrote a short message in 1977 for inclusion, as an image, on two golden records affixed to the Voyager spacecrafts ... inches in diameter and is made of gold-plated copper. The aluminum cover ...