In 1977, Carl Sagan's team attached a gold-plated phonograph record to the Voyager spacecraft. It contains the sounds, images, and music of Earth — a cosmic love letter still hurtling through interstellar space.
Radiolab clip about how Carl Sagan assembled a team to decide what humanity would say to the cosmos — and how he and Ann Druyan fell in love while making the Golden Record.
NASA's official breakdown of the 115 images, 55 spoken greetings, natural sounds, and 90-minute music selection that Sagan's committee chose to represent Earth.
Full playback of the Golden Record's audio and decoded images, exactly as an alien civilization would experience them.
The Planetary Society's deep dive into why Sagan and Druyan chose to present humanity in an optimistic, loving light — and what they left out on purpose.
Ann Druyan reflects on recording her own brainwaves onto the record, Carl Sagan's favorite music, and what the record means nearly 50 years later.
Cinematic 4K documentary tracing where Voyager 1 is headed over the next 10 trillion years, long after its Golden Record is all that remains of us.
NASA's real-time tracker showing Voyager 1 over 16 billion miles away — nearly one light-day from Earth — with instrument status and 3D visualization.