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Color image of the gold-anodized aluminum plaque attached to Pioneer 10. It shows line art diagrams of a man and woman, their relative size compared to the probe, a diagram of our solar system with Pioneer's path past Mars and Jupiter then out of the solar system, our location relative to a number of pulsars, and a schematic representation of a well-known Hydrogen atom transition.

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Color image of the gold-anodized aluminum plaque attached to Pioneer 10. It shows line art diagrams of a man and woman, their relative size compared to the probe, a diagram of our solar system with Pioneer's path past Mars and Jupiter then out of the solar system, our location relative to a number of pulsars, and a schematic representation of a well-known Hydrogen atom transition.
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Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 02-Mar-2023 14:04:05 UTC Robert McNees
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The Pioneer 10 spacecraft, launched #OTD in 1972, famously carries a gold-anodized aluminum plaque that encodes its origins. The plaque was suggested by science journalist Eric Burgess, designed by Carl Sagan and Frank Drake, and illustrated by Linda Salzman Sagan.

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