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The two Voyager probes contain a gold record, which contains both images and sounds from the Planet Earth, along with symbolic instructions on how to play it back.
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In March 1972, a plaque he designed with legendary astronomer Carl Sagan was blasted into space on board the Pioneer 10 spacecraft. ( Click here to see the Pioneer Plaque.) A few years later, Drake and Sagan would team up again on a much more ambitious project, attaching a gold-plated record full of music and photos onto the two Voyager probes.
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Voyager 2's two computers were also extensively reprogrammed to take advantage of new image-compression software that had been developed since the craft had been launched.
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