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The Voyager golden record covers 90 minutes

It carries greetings in 55 languages, music and 116 encoded images The copper disc plays at 16 and two thirds revolutions per minute, the speed of a long playing record, which doubles its capacity. Its cover diagrams the playback speed and the location of Earth using pulsars. A cartridge and stylus are included in the aluminium case. It sits in Mondo's space collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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NASA Voyager

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: It carries greetings in 55 languages, music and 116 encoded images. The figure is taken from NASA Voyager, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a space fact?: Yes. It sits on the Space shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.