Cartoon is a guide
to Earth’s biology
The Arecibo Message from 1974
was the first radio signal with a
specific destination outside the Solar
System. It consists of 73 lines of 23
characters each, which make up a
graphic message that primarily describes
the chemistry behind life on Earth.
However, the signal will just miss its
destination, the M13 star cluster.Arrival time: 22155.Astronomer Carl Sagan helped
produce the contents of the Pioneer,
Voyager and Arecibo messages.
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