OTD In Space – Nov 16: Arecibo Observatory Broadcasts Interstellar Notification

.On November 16, 1974, human beings delivered their first information to the celebrities in a try to talk to space beings. They performed this utilizing what was actually at that point the most extensive broadcast telescope on earth, located at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. A team of experts led through Frank Drake and also Carl Sagan delivered their notification to the M13 star cluster.

The message was actually recorded binary code and also contained information about individual DNA. It additionally featured bodies of a human, the solar system as well as the Arecibo telescope. The concept was actually that if any sort of aliens were actually to get the signal as well as figure out just how to decode it, they would understand where it came from.

Because M13 is 25,000 light-years away, it will certainly take 25,000 years for any type of M13 invaders to hear our notification– if they are actually level certainly there. The Arecibo information is only one of a number of notifications aimed for space beings. Our experts have actually also consisted of messages on numerous space probe, such as Trailblazer and also Voyager.