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Images on the Golden Record

The following is a partial listing of pictures electronically placed on the golden records which are carried onboard the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft.

The calibration circle image is one of the pictures electronically placed on the phonograph records which are carried onboard the...
A black line art circle on a white background
The UN building night image is one of the pictures electronically placed on the phonograph records which are carried onboard...
The United Nations building, a tall structure, photographed at night with lights illuminating its windows
The physical unit definitions image is one of the pictures electronically placed on the phonograph records which are carried onboard...
Printed symbols and equations depicting conversions and measurements of time, mass, and distance based on a hydrogen atom
The modern house (Cloudcroft, New Mexico) image is one of the pictures electronically placed on the phonograph records which are...
A mid-20th-century ranch-style single-story house in a desert grasslands area, positioned in front of a large hill
The Heron Island (Great Barrier Reef of Australia) image is one of the pictures electronically placed on the phonograph records...
Aerial view of Heron Island in Great Barrier Reef of Australia
The house construction (African) image is one of the pictures electronically placed on the phonograph records which are carried onboard...
Four men work to lay bricks to build a small structure next to a second building that has a grass roof
The Egypt, Red Sea, Sinal Peninsula and the Nile image is one of the pictures electronically placed on the phonograph...
View from space of Egypt, Red Sea, Sinal Peninsula and the Nile with distance measurements labeled
The supermarket image is one of the pictures electronically placed on the phonograph records which are carried onboard the Voyager...
A woman stands with a cart at a supermarket, eating from a bag of green grapes she holds in her hand
The children with globe image is one of the pictures electronically placed on the phonograph records which are carried onboard...
Seven children of diverse ethnicities stand circled around a globe as they point at different countries
The sprinters (Valeri Borzov of the U.S.S.R. in lead) image is one of the pictures electronically placed on the phonograph...
Four men in shorts running around a track in front of an audience at a competitive event
The fishing boat with nets image is one of the pictures electronically placed on the phonograph records which are carried...
Five men stand on a small boat, pulling a fishing net from the water near the coast
The house (Africa) image is one of the pictures electronically placed on the phonograph records which are carried onboard the...
A small house with a grass roof and a fence made of sticks, located in a desert area with three people sitting near the front door
The schoolroom image is one of the pictures electronically placed on the phonograph records which are carried onboard the Voyager...
A teacher leans over his student's desk to help the child with writing on paper in a classroom
The Jupiter image is one of the pictures electronically placed on the phonograph records which are carried onboard the Voyager...
A photo of Jupiter, labeled 142,800 km and 318e
The man from Guatemala image is one of the pictures electronically placed on the phonograph records which are carried onboard...
Portrait of a smiling man holding tools over his shoulders
The sketch of bushmen image is one of the pictures electronically placed on the phonograph records which are carried onboard...
Silhouettes of figures depicting two humans, one with a stick-like weapon in hand, hunting a four-legged mammal from a distance
The diagram of vertebrate evolution image is one of the pictures electronically placed on the phonograph records which are carried...
Drawings of various vertebrate species, arranged vertically by complexity of evolution, including humans, mammals, birds, reptiles, and fish
The structure of Earth image is one of the pictures electronically placed on the phonograph records which are carried onboard...
Line diagram of Earth's layers with percentages of elements that make up the planet, diameter, and mass
The diagram of continental drift image is one of the pictures electronically placed on the phonograph records which are carried...
Line diagram of three versions of Earth over millions of years to illustrate continental drift
The diagram of family ages image is one of the pictures electronically placed on the phonograph records which are carried...
Silhouette of four human forms illustrating size and mass at various ages: 4y, 12y, 30y, 80y
The demonstration of licking, eating and drinking image is one of the pictures electronically placed on the phonograph records which...
A woman licks an ice cream cone next to a man biting a sandwich, while a third person pours water from a glass pitcher into their mouth
The nursing mother image is one of the pictures electronically placed on the phonograph records which are carried onboard the...
A woman holding and nursing an infant
The diagram of male and female image is one of the pictures electronically placed on the phonograph records which are...
Silhouette diagram of the male and pregnant female human bodies, with age and height measurements
The fetus diagram image is one of the pictures electronically placed on the phonograph records which are carried onboard the...
Silhouette diagram of a human fetus in two stages, with length and time measurements
The diagram of conception image is one of the pictures electronically placed on the phonograph records which are carried onboard...
Line diagram depicting human egg fertilization, with 1/150 cm labeled to measure the male reproductive cell
The DNA structure magnified, light hit image is one of the pictures electronically placed on the phonograph records which are...
A large diagram of a DNA helix splitting, labeled 34 angstroms
The DNA structure image is one of the pictures electronically placed on the phonograph records which are carried onboard the...
Diagrams of molecular structure and physical structure of DNA
The chemical definitions image is one of the pictures electronically placed on the phonograph records which are carried onboard the...
Printed diagrams for atomic weights for hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and sulfur, and molecular structures
The Earth image is one of the pictures electronically placed on the phonograph records which are carried onboard the Voyager...
A photo of Earth from space, labeled 12,756 km and 1e
The Mars image is one of the pictures electronically placed on the phonograph records which are carried onboard the Voyager...
The surface of Mars, labeled 6787 km
The Mercury image is one of the pictures electronically placed on the phonograph records which are carried onboard the Voyager...
The surface of planet Mercury
The solar spectrum image is one of the pictures electronically placed on the phonograph records which are carried onboard the...
A blue, green, and red gradient indicating the electromagnetic spectrum
The solar system parameters image is one of the pictures electronically placed on the phonograph records which are carried onboard...
Printed chart depicting Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto with distance, diameter, mass, and time references
The solar system parameters image is one of the pictures electronically placed on the phonograph records which are carried onboard...
Printed chart depicting the Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars with distance, diameter, mass, and time reference
The mathematical definitions image is one of the pictures electronically placed on the phonograph records which are carried onboard the...
Printed mathematical symbols and equations depicting numerals, counting, binary notation, addition, fractions, and multiplication
The solar location map image is one of the pictures electronically placed on the phonograph records which are carried onboard...
A line diagram indicating various distances from the Sun with pulsars, with one beam pointing to a photo of the Andromeda galaxy
The violin with music score (Cavatina) image is one of the pictures electronically placed on the phonograph records which are...
A violin positioned above a page of printed sheet music
The Titan Centaur launch image is one of the pictures electronically placed on the phonograph records which are carried onboard...
A space shuttle launching into the sky above a cloud of smoke
The astronaut in space image is one of the pictures electronically placed on the phonograph records which are carried onboard...
An astronaut floating above the Earth in space
The page of book (Newton, System of the World) image is one of the pictures electronically placed on the phonograph...
An open book with text and a diagram of a planet printed on its pages