"The spacecraft will be encountered and the record played only if there are advanced space-faring civilizations in interstellar space."
Bottom-left starburst. Maps our Sun's location relative to 14 pulsars.
Bottom-right. Defines the unit of time (0.70ns) and length based on Hydrogen.
Top-left. Visual instructions on how to operate the stylus and record.
Top-right. Explains how audio waveforms can be decoded into images.
> Discovered volcanism on Io.
> Analyzed Great Red Spot.
> Confirmed ring system.
> Titan flyby priority.
> Analyzed hexagon storm.
> Sacrificed Pluto trajectory.
> Voyager 2 intercept.
> Voyager 1 was out of plane.
> No data collected.
> Voyager 2 intercept.
> Great Dark Spot imaging.
> Triton flyby complete.
On February 14, 1990, just minutes before its cameras were permanently powered down to conserve energy for the interstellar void, Voyager 1 was commanded to look back. Across 6 billion kilometers of emptiness, it captured the final portrait of its origin. In that vast darkness, Earth was caught—a single, vulnerable pixel suspended in a scattered ray of sunlight.
"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives."— Carl Sagan