By the numbers
Golden Records
12: Size, in inches, of the Golden Records aboard two Voyager spacecraft launched in 1977
155: Number of images – selected to portray the diversity of life and culture on Earth – encoded on each record
55: Number of languages spoken on the records
40,000: Years before the spacecraft will make a close approach to another planetary system
Source: nasa.gov
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