Voyager’s 1977 album for aliens is now available on SoundCloud

A gold record ready to be attached to a Voyager space probe, USA, circa 1977. NASA took this same idea and applied it to the golden record, but also decided to take it one step further.

Vinyl enthusiasts and music buffs everywhere rejoice, as the guys from NASA recently put together an MP3 recording of all the sounds and music sent off with the Voyager probe, known as the Golden Records. Now, these recordings have become available for humans on SoundCloud. That includes greetings in 55 languages, from Welsh to Urdu, of course, but also the ambient noises that were designed to give listeners a broad acoustic glimpse of life on Earth.

It’s highly unlikely that the records themselves will ever be played: That would require intelligent life to have evolved close enough to us in time and space for the Voyager to reach them and be intercepted.

Somewhere, deep in interstellar space, are two NASA spacecrafts that are both carrying a 12-inch gold-plated copper disk. The Voyager traveled past various planets like Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune and over the edge of interstellar space.

Renowned astronomer and science communicator Carl Sagan chaired the committee that chose all 115 images and sounds, including the roaring waves of the ocean, chirping birds, bellowing whales, claps of thunder, and other audio samples.

Voyager 1 is the only man-made object to have left the solar system. Embedded on these golden records are sounds and images, carefully selected, to portray the diverse life and culture on Earth.

The uploading of the Voyager golden record on SoundCloud follows the latest news that the streaming service is reportedly running low on cash.

And now you can hear the high quality recordings yourself.