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The Voyager program consists of a pair of unmanned scientific probes, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2. They were launched in 1977 to take advantage of a favorable planetary alignment of the late 1970s.
Voyager 1 and 2 both carry with them a golden record that contains pictures and sounds of Earth, along with symbolic directions for playing the record and data detailing the location of Earth. The record is intended as a combination time capsule and interstellar message to any civilization, alien or far-future human, that recovers either of the Voyager craft. The contents of this record were selected by a committee chaired by Carl Sagan.
The following is a selection of pictures electronically placed on the phonograph records which are carried onboard the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft { NASA | Complete Photograph Index }

{ UN Building Day and Night, UN }

{ X-ray of hand, NAIC }

{ Demonstration of licking, eating and drinking, NAIC }

{ Schoolroom, UN }

{ Sprinters (Valeri Borzov of the U.S.S.R. in lead), History of the Olympics, Picturepoint, London }

{ Supermarket, NAIC }

{ Calibration circle, Jon Lomberg }

{ Diagram of vertebrate evolution, Jon Lomberg }

{ DNA Structure, Jon Lomberg }

{ Diagram of conception, Jon Lomberg }

{ Fetus diagram, Jon Lomberg }

{ Diagram of male and female, Jon Lomberg }

{ Diagram of family ages, Jon Lomberg }

{ Diagram of continental drift, Jon Lomberg }

{ Mathematical definitions, Frank Drake }

{ Solar location map, Frank Drake }

Solar spectrum, National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center, Cornell University (NAIC)

{ Structure of Earth, Jon Lomberg }

{ Earth, NASA }

{ Mars, NASA }

{ Mercury, NASA }

{ Jupiter, NASA }

{ Titan Centaur launch, NASA }

{ Airplane in flight, Frank Drake }

{ Astronaut in space, NASA }

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