Voyager Golden Record Cover

Introducing 'The Space Odyssey' collection by Serge Averbukh, showcasing convergent media paintings of various celestial bodies and space exploration... more

by Serge Averbukh

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$3,000

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48.000 x 48.000 inches

Title

Voyager Golden Record Cover

Artist

Serge Averbukh

Medium

Digital Art - Digital Painting

Description

Introducing 'The Space Odyssey' collection by Serge Averbukh, showcasing convergent media paintings of various celestial bodies and space exploration themes. Here you will find framed and wrapped canvas fine art prints, featuring composition Voyager Golden Record Cover.
The Voyager Golden Records are phonograph records that were included aboard both Voyager spacecraft launched in 1977. They contain sounds and images selected to portray the diversity of life and culture on Earth, and are intended for any intelligent extraterrestrial life form, or for future humans, who may find them. Neither Voyager spacecraft is heading toward any particular star, but Voyager 1 will pass within 1.6 light-years of the star Gliese 445, currently in the constellation Camelopardalis, in about 40,000 years.
Carl Sagan noted that "The spacecraft will be encountered and the record played only if there are advanced space-faring civilizations in interstellar space. But the launching of this 'bottle' into the cosmic 'ocean' says something very hopeful about life on this planet." Thus the record is best seen as a time capsule.
The Voyager 1 probe is currently the farthest human made object from Earth. Voyager 1 has reached interstellar space, the region between stars where the galactic plasma is present. Like their predecessors Pioneer 10 and 11, which featured a simple plaque, both Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 were launched by NASA with a message aboard � a kind of time capsule, intended to communicate to extraterrestrials a story of the world of humans on Earth.
The contents of the record were selected for NASA by a committee chaired by Carl Sagan of Cornell University. The selection of content for the record took almost a year. Sagan and his associates assembled 116 images and a variety of natural sounds, such as those made by surf, wind, thunder and animals (including the songs of birds and whales). To this they added musical selections from different cultures and eras, spoken greetings in 55 ancient and modern languages, and printed messages from U.S. president Jimmy Carter and U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim. The record also includes the inspirational message Per aspera ad astra in Morse code.
The pulsar map and hydrogen molecule diagram are shared in common with the Pioneer plaque.

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May 16th, 2016