A message to outer space

The Golden Phonograph. Picture taken from www.webodysseum.com

A golden phonograph record containing audio clips of natural Earth phenomena, animal sounds, and human greetings is carried by each of the two Voyager space probes (which are now close to exiting the solar system).

Astro FastFact #1

The moons of Uranus are named after characters from Shakespeare's The Tempest and Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock.

Photo of Miranda from NASA Multimedia Gallery

Photo of Umbriel taken by Voyager 2. NASA Multimedia Gellery

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