Media Information
 
 
 
Collection:
NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day Collection
Title:
A Cosmic Call to Nearby Stars
Explanation:
If you could send a message to an alien civilization [ http://web.media.mi…], what would you say? The people from the Cosmic Call [ http://www.matessa.…] project sent the above image [ http://www.matessa.…] as the first page of a longer message. The message [ http://www.matessa.…] was broadcast [ http://www.matessa.…] toward local stars [ http://www.matessa.…] by radio telescope [ http://www.setileag…] during the summer of 1999. Another message was sent in 2003. The single-dish, 70 meter diameter telescope that send the messages is located in Ukraine [ http://en.wikipedia…] on the Crimean peninsula near the town of of Evpatoria [ http://en.wikipedia…]. This first page of the Cosmic Call 1999 [ http://www3.sympati…] message, shown above, involves only numbers and so is easier for puzzle solvers to decode than a more famous message [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] broadcast toward distant star cluster M13 [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] in 1974. (The solution is here [ http://www.ibiblio.…].)
Credit and Copyright:
Yuvan Dutil & Stephane Dumas [ http://www3.sympati…]
facet_when:
1999
facet_when:
1974
facet_when:
2003
facet_where:
Ukraine
facet_where:
Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
facet_when_year:
1999
facet_when_year:
2003
facet_when_year:
1974
original url:
http://antwrp.gsfc.…
UID:
SPD-APOD-ap060402

A Cosmic Call to Nearby Stars
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