The Voyager Probes May Be The Closest Humanity Gets to Immortality. Here’s Why
Voyager 1 is the farthest human-made object from Earth. After sweeping by Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, it is now almost 15 billion miles (24 billion kilometers) from Earth in interstellar space.
Both Voyager 1 and its twin, Voyager 2, carry little pieces of humanity in the form of their Golden Records.These messages in a bottle include spoken greetings in 55 languages, sounds and images from nature, an album of recordings and images from numerous cultures, and a written message of welcome from Jimmy Carter, who…