Skip Navigation
menu close modal

Resources

Voyager Golden Record

Golden record and golden record cover
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Published: December 4, 2017

Each Voyager spacecraft carries a copy of the Golden Record, which has been featured in several works of science fiction. The record's protective cover, with instructions for playing its contents, is shown at left.

ENLARGE

Related

These images from NASA's Dawn spacecraft show Lucaria Tholus on asteroid Vesta, after which Lucaria quadrangle is named. Lucaria Tholus is the large, roughly elliptically shaped hill in the center ...
More
Topography and Albedo Image of Lucaria Tholus
Topography and Albedo Image of Lucaria Tholus
The long, gently meandering character of the clouds in this view is a tracer of the generally stable flow of Saturn's atmosphere. The flow is disrupted at turbulent belt-zone boundaries and, here a...
More
Saturn's atmosphere
Saturn's Streamers
This image, taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, shows the surface of dwarf planet Ceres from an altitude of 915 miles (1,470 kilometers). The image, with a resolution of 450 feet (140 meters) per pixe...
More
Dawn HAMO Image 15
Dawn HAMO Image 15
This mosaic from the Descent Imager/Spectral Radiometer camera on the European Space Agency's Huygens probe combines 17 image triplets, projected from an altitude of 800 meters (2,625 feet). The ar...
More
A mosaic of Titan's surface
Huygens Titan Mosaic #2
The shepherd moons Prometheus and Pandora drive the quirky F ring in its circuit of Saturn, while Mimas lurks in the distance. This view looks toward the unilluminated side of the rings from about...
More
Prometheus, Pandora, Mimas and the F ring
Mimas and the Shepherds
Swirls Around the Middle October 1, 2004 Full-Res: PIA06489 Saturn's bright equatorial region displays prominent swirls and eddies in...
More
Swirls Around the Middle
Swirls Around the Middle
Janus floats above the meandering clouds of Saturn. A few of the large craters on the moon are just visible. This view looks toward the unilluminated side of the rings from about 18 degrees above ...
More
Janus and Saturn
Janus Floats On
Cassini's closest look yet at bright, icy Enceladus was captured in this view, centered on the moon's trailing hemisphere. It shows some of the linear features in the terrain of the Diyar Planitia...
More
black and white image of smooth enceladus
Zooming In on Enceladus
This map, made from data obtained by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, shows the distribution of pyroxene, an iron- and magnesium-rich mineral, in the southern hemisphere of the giant asteroid Vesta.
More
Pyroxene Map of Vesta's South Pole
Pyroxene Map of Vesta's South Pole
This view from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows cratered terrain typical of Ceres, with a small bright crater highlighting the scene at lower right.
More
Dawn LAMO Image 61
Dawn LAMO Image 61
The highest resolution image of Pluto to date (July 14, 2015).
More
High resolution image of Pluto
Pluto in High Resolution
The top picture is a shaded relief image of the northwest corner of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula generated from Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) data, and shows a subtle, but unmistakable, ind...
More
The top picture is a shaded relief image of the northwest corner of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula generated from Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) data, and shows a subtle, but unmistakable, indication of the Chicxulub impact crater.
Shaded Relief with Height as Color and Landsat, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico
This raw, unprocessed image of Saturn's moon Enceladus was taken during Cassini's Nov. 6, 2011, flyby which passed within about 300 miles (500 kilometers) of the moon's surface. This encounter wa...
More
Enceladus
Enceladus Flyby E-16 (Raw Image #4)
This view from NASA's Dawn mission shows where ice has been detected in the northern wall of Ceres' Juling Crater, which is in almost permanent shadow.
More
Juling Crater's Shadow
Juling Crater's Shadow
This is NASA InSight's second full selfie on Mars.
More
spacecraft on reddish surface, seen from above, covered in dust
InSight's Dusty Selfie
Below a darkened Enceladus, a plume of water ice is backlit in this view of one of Saturn's most dramatic moons. See Bursting at the Seams and Jet Blue to learn more about the jets of water ice em...
More
Below a darkened Enceladus, a plume of water ice is backlit in this view of one of Saturn's most dramatic moons.
Dark Moon, Dramatic Plume
Saturn's small, potato-shaped moon Prometheus appears embedded within the planet's rings near the center of this Cassini spacecraft view while the larger moon Mimas orbits beyond the rings. Mimas ...
More
Prometheus, Mimas and Saturn's rings
Planted Potato
This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft is dominated by a double crater which may have been formed by the simultaneous impact of a binary asteroid. Binary asteroids are asteroids that orbit their mu...
More
Vesta's Cratered Landscape: Double Crater and Craters with Bright Ejecta
Vesta's Cratered Landscape: Double Crater and Craters with Bright Ejecta
The small moon Helene leads Dione (not shown) by 60 degrees in the moons' shared orbit. Helene (33 kilometers, or 21 miles across) is a "Trojan" moon of Dione (1,123 kilometers, or 698 miles acros...
More
Helene
Helene Attends Dione
This view, taken on June 3, 2016, from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows an area within the floor of the Mondamin impact basin, which lies in the southern hemisphere of Ceres. Mondamin Crater is about 7...
More
Dawn LAMO Image 186
Dawn LAMO Image 186
The Cassini spacecraft's February 2010 encounter with Calypso yielded this incredibly detailed view of this Trojan moon. Irregularly shaped Calypso is one of two Trojan moons of the larger moon Te...
More
Calypso
Calypso Close Up
These images from NASA's Dawn spacecraft, located in asteroid Vesta's Caparronia quadrangle, in Vesta's northern hemisphere, demonstrate a special analytical technique, which results in shadowed ar...
More
Revealing Shadows 6
Revealing Shadows 6
+ Color-exaggerated version + Image with labels With giant Saturn hanging in the blackness and sheltering Cassini from the sun's blinding glare, the spacecraft viewed the rings as never before, r...
More
A marvelous panoramic view of Saturn and it's stunning rings
In Saturn's Shadow
A bizarre six-sided feature encircling the north pole of Saturn near 78 degrees north latitude has been spied by the visual and infrared mapping spectrometer on NASA's Cassini spacecraft. 
More
Hexagon feature in Saturn's north polar region
Saturn's Active North Pole
This image from Cassini's radar instrument was acquired by the Cassini radar instrument in synthetic aperture mode during a Sept. 7, 2006, flyby of Titan. The image shows long, dark ridges simil...
More
Dunes on Titan
Swimming in Dunes

You Might Also Like