Murmurs of Earth: The Voyager Interstellar Record - Softcover

Carl Sagan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0345315367 ISBN 13: 9780345315366

Publisher: Ballantine Books, 1978

Synopsis

Covers the fascinating story of the interstellar record containing pictures, greetings in different languages, and a selection of earth sounds that was placed on the Voyager spacecraft and launched in September 1977

About this title

About the Author:

Carl Sagan (1934-1996) was the Director of Cornell University’s Laboratory for Planetary Studies. He played a leading role in the American space program and was an adviser to NASA since its inception. He briefed the Apollo astronauts before their flights to the Moon, and was an experimenter on the Mariner, Viking, Voyager, and Galileo expeditions to the planets. He helped solve the mysteries of the high temperatures of Venus (answer: massive greenhouse effect), the seasonal changes on Mars (answer: windblown dust), and the reddish haze of Titan (answer: complex organic molecules). For his work, Dr. Sagan received the NASA medals for Exceptional Scientific Achievement, and the Pulitzer Prize for The Dragons of Eden. His 1980 television series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage won the Emmy and Peabody awards. The National Science Foundation declared that his “research transformed planetary science... his gifts to mankind were infinite.”

About this edition

• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Publication date: 1978
• ISBN 10: 0345315367
• ISBN 13: 9780345315366
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 273