![]() ![]() Goode," Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, a Japanese shakuhachi (a type of flute), a Pygmy girls' initiation song, and greetings in 55 languages. ![]() The sounds include the calls of humpback whales, the Chuck Berry song "Johnny B. On board each Voyager is a golden record-and record player-that is built to last one billion years or more and contains key information about humanity and life on planet Earth, in case of an alien encounter. Voyager's main mission was to explore other planets including Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune, but it also carried the story of humanity into deep space. ![]() "None of us knew, when we launched 40 years ago, that anything would still be working, and continuing on this pioneering journey," said Voyager project scientist Ed Stone. When Voyager 1 and 2 launched about two weeks apart in 1977 from Cape Canaveral, Florida, scientists knew little about the outer planets in our solar system, and could hardly imagine the scope of their upcoming space odyssey. ![]()
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