One Earth: New Horizons Message

Let's send a message from all of us to outer space. The One Earth: New Horizons Message Project seeks to create a globally crowd-sourced message to upload to the New Horizons spacecraft, following a successful Pluto encounter. 

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Earth's backup: Sending religious texts to the moon - space - 21 May 2014 - New Scientist

Sending a sacred Jewish scroll to the moon could be just the beginning of an apocalypse-proof off-world backup of all culture and life on Earth

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Life After Pluto: New Horizons Could Carry Your Message to the Stars - NBC News

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft will be working at capacity during its flyby of the dwarf planet Pluto and its moons in July 2015 — but after the flyby is fin...

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WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE INANIMATE OBJECT?

The New Horizons spacecraft, naturally. :)

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Drake equation: How many alien civilizations exist?

Play with our interactive graphic to work out how many intelligent civilizations there could be in our universe.

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New dwarf planet hints at giant world far beyond Pluto - space - 26 March 2014 - New Scientist

The orbit of a newly discovered dwarf planet could signal the existence of a rocky world, 10 times bigger than Earth, lurking in the solar system's fringes

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Voyager One’s ‘Golden Record’ To inform civilizations billions of years from now about our culture.

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We're working to add a similar message to the New Horizons spacecraft, but ours will be crowd-sourced. :)

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Voyager 1 has this letter from President Carter on board.

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Touring the Milky Way now is as easy as clicking a button with NASA's new zoomable, 360-degree mosaic presented Thursday at the TEDActive 2014 Conference in Vancouver, Canada.

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Song from π!

This is a song I wrote to help me memorize π, since I can memorize music easier than strings of numbers. In my mind, I can hear the melody, and figure out th...

How might math and music be connected in our New Horizons Message? This video shows one impressive way.

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We Are Singing Stardust: Carl Sagan on the Story of Humanity’s Greatest Message and How the Golden Record Was Born

"We [are] a species endowed with hope and perseverance, at least a little intelligence, substantial generosity and a palpable zest to make c

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A History of Curious Artifacts Sent Into Space

Since the dawn of the Space Age in 1957, thousands of artifacts and memorabilia have been flown into space. Some have been hoisted on brief suborbital flights, while others have been flung out of the solar system, never to return. And of course, it’s become a fashionable — and highly commercialized — trend as of&

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While all eyes are on Sochi, NASA's New Horizons mission team prepares for its own Olympian challenge: the first encounter with Pluto. Hear how these dedicated scientists and engineers are going for planetary science gold -- and feel the energy that powers this incredible mission. New Horizons will help us understand worlds at the planetary frontier by making the first reconnaissance of Pluto and by venturing deeper into the distant, mysterious Kuiper Belt -- a relic of solar system formation. The New Horizons spacecraft -- built and operated at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland -- launched on Jan. 19, 2006. It swung past Jupiter for a gravity boost in February 2007, and will fly through the Pluto system on July 14, 2015. The countdown is on . . .

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This mind-bending music was created using Voyager spacecraft data

An Italian scientist has taken 37 years worth of data from both Voyager space probes and turned it into music. The result is surprisingly good.

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Ted Stryk reports on the status of the New Horizons mission from the mission's latest Science Team Meeting. Updates include the status of the Kuiper Belt target search and the use of ALMA to refine Pluto's ephemeris.

New Horizons: Updates From the January 2014 Science Team Meeting, Part 2

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Just over 8300 people have now signed the petition supporting the New Horizons Message Initiative. The approach of the 10,000 figure reminds me to jog those who haven’t to stop by the site to sign the petition. For those not [&]

Today @centauri_dreams discusses plans to add messages from Earth to New Horizons and OSIRIS-REx.

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The National Science Foundation has asked New Horizons Message Initiative director Jon Lomberg to be a judge in an astrophotography contest they are holding in connection with Astronomy and Discover magazines. The topic is Comet Ison. If anybody has a good shot, you can find the details at this website.

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Over the New Year transition I saw a number of tweets to the effect that as of January 1, the first flyby of Pluto was going to occur next year, a notable thought when I ponder how fast this long [&]