Voyager Passing A Nebula 6x8 Inches, Oil On Panel A New Tiny Painting Coming To EveryDayOriginal.com

Voyager Passing A Nebula 6x8 inches, Oil on panel A new tiny painting coming to EveryDayOriginal.com tomorrow morning!

The Voyager 1 spacecraft became the first human made object to enter interstellar space in 2012. At a distance of more than 20 light-hours, it is the furthest any human made object has ever traveled from Earth. In case it is ever found by intelligent life, Voyager carries a golden phonograph record of sounds and images of earth.

"The engineers projected a one-billion-year shelf life for the golden phonograph records. How long is a billion years? In a billion years the continents of Earth would be so altered that we would not recognize the surface of our own planet. One thousand million years ago, the most complex life forms on Earth were bacteria. In the midst of the nuclear arms race, our future, even in the short term seemed a dubious prospect. Those of us privileged to work on the making of the Voyager message did so with a sense of sacred purpose. It was conceivable that, Noah-like, we were assembling the ark of human culture, the only artifact that would survive into the unimaginably far distant future." - Ann Druyan