Pioneer plaque,conceptual artwork. Image showing the shadow of a human head over stone carved with images from the Pioneer spacecraft pictorial plaque. The plaque was attached to the exterior of the Pioneer 10 and 11 spacecrafts. The "dumb-bell" symbol at top right represents a hydrogen atom,below,14 lines radiate from our Sun to the relative positions of 14 Pulsars - cosmic sources of radio energy. Human figures,the man's hand raised in goodwill,are set against the spacecraft to give scale. At bottom is a plan of the Solar System,showing the route of a Pioneer spacecraft from Earth. Pioneer 10 and 11 left Earth in 1972 and 1973 respectively | |
Licence : | Droits gérés |
Crédit: | Science Photo Library / Podevin, Jean-Francois |
Taille de l’image : | 4930 px × 3602 px |
Model Release : | Non requis |
Property Release : | Non requis |
Restrictions : | - |