pioneer 10

 

in 1972, the spacecraft «pioneer 10» was launched from cape kennedy, carrying earth's first space probe to an outer planet. it became the first spacecraft to encounter jupiter and now the most remote man-made object launched into the cosmos and is approaching over 11 billion kilometers from the sun. the spacecraft became the first artifact to «leave the solar system» in 1983 when it passed beyond the farthest known planet. it is now exploring the very edges of interstellar space as it drifts onward in mankind's first journey to the stars.

 

«pioneer 10» carries a plaque with messages designed to make contact with possible alien civilizations. dr. carl sagan helped devise the plaque that bear the illustration of a man and a woman as well as a diagram identifying earth's location in the galaxy. like a message in a bottle, these plaque journeys out into interstellar space possibly to be found one day by an extraterrestrial civilization.

 

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