Voyager Golden Record
The Voyager Golden Records are records that contain sounds and images chosen to show the life and culture on Earth. They show photographs of life on earth, including nature, cities, people and animals. They also have greetings recorded in 55 languages, songs from around the world, and non-musical sounds. The record gives specific instructions and distance measurements that can be used to pinpoint Earth's location as well. The record was designed by a team headed by Carl Sagan to communicate with extraterrestrial life.
These records which were sent in Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 (both launched in 1977), are for alien life forms to see. The outside of the record is designed so that aliens could understand, with instructions and images about how to play the record. However, the records can be seen as a symbol rather than a serious attempt to contact alien life forms.
Voyager Golden Record Media
Explanation of the Voyager record cover diagram, as provided by NASA
Preparation for the record's packaging before the launch of Voyager 2
The golden record is attached to the spacecraft.
This image depicts a woman at a supermarket. It is part of the image collection on the Voyager Golden Record that is being carried into deep space aboard the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecrafts. The low quality and resolution is due to the limitations of the format used on the record but it is what will be displayed to an extraterrestrial intelligent life form if the probes ever gets discovered.
A photo of Jupiter with its diameter indicated
This image depicts humans licking, eating, and drinking as modes of consumption.
This is a photograph of the Arecibo Observatory marked with an indication of scale.
This image is a photograph of page 6 from Isaac Newton's Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica Volume III, De mundi systemate (The System of the World).
This is a photograph of Egypt, Red Sea, Sinai Peninsula and the Nile from Earth orbit annotated with chemical composition of Earth's atmosphere.
