Wikipedia:POTD column/December 4, 2006
The anodised aluminium, the plaque shows the figures of a man and a woman along with several symbols that are designed to provide information about the origin of the spacecraft. However, the mean time for the spacecraft to come within 30 astronomical units of a star is longer than the current age of our galaxy.
Plaque credit: Carl Sagan, Frank Drake, Linda Salzman Sagan
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