Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11 carry a plaque that features a design engraved into a gold-anodized aluminum plate attached to the spacecraft's antenna support struts to help shield it from erosion by interstellar dust. (Image credit: NASA) The plaque depicts two nude figures – a man and a woma...
Pioneers 10 and 11 each carried a gold plaque inscribed with a pictorial message in the event that extraterrestrial beings ever found the spacecraft. Two complementary Pioneer Venus spacecraft (Pioneer 12 and 13; 1978) reached their destination at the end of 1978. The first, called the Orbiter...
Image used with permission by copyright holder King said that the replicas are equal in every way to the originals, as well as the versions hanging a bit closer to home in the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum. The accuracy doesn’t end at the plaque, either. The original packa...
The first object destined to leave our solar system, the Pioneer F spacecraft, carries this pictorial plaque to show other beings who, what, where and when the craft was designed.
Annotated Pioneer 10 Plaque (click image for higher resolution). Hydrogen As a Yardstick The hydrogen atom, indicated by the two circles at the top left of the diagram, serves as a universal reference for time and distance. Specifically, the atom’s hyperfine transition, which is about 1420 ...
The Pioneer Plaque is a15.2×22.8cm(6×9in)gold-anodized aluminum plaque with information engraved on its... Learn more about this topic: Space Facts: Lesson for Kids from Chapter 8/ Lesson 31 23K Space is filled with an enormous variety of objects. Explore space and learn about galaxies...
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plaque, hardly noticeable, set in the new concrete grandstand,declaring that, yes, ON THIS TRACK...and so forth. Up and acrossthe way, St. John the Evangelist still rises, and on the steepleon a bright English afternoon the flag sna...