Pioneer 10-11 Plaque on Black Canvas
by Serge Averbukh
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72.000 x 48.000 inches
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Title
Pioneer 10-11 Plaque on Black Canvas
Artist
Serge Averbukh
Medium
Digital Art - Digital Painting
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Introducing 'The Space Odyssey' collection by Serge Averbukh, showcasing convergent media paintings of various celestial bodies and space exploration themes. Here you will find framed and wrapped canvas fine art prints, featuring composition Pioneer 10-11 Plaque on Black Canvas.
The Pioneer plaques are a pair of gold-anodized aluminum plaques which were placed on board the 1972 Pioneer 10 and 1973 Pioneer 11 spacecraft, featuring a pictorial message, in case either Pioneer 10 or 11 is intercepted by extraterrestrial life. The plaques show the nude figures of a human male and female along with several symbols that are designed to provide information about the origin of the spacecraft. The symbols include hyperfine transition of neutral hydrogen, Solar System, relative position of the Sun to the center of the Galaxy and 14 pulsars and silhouette of the Pioneer spacecraft.
The Pioneer 10 and 11 spacecraft were the first human-built objects to achieve escape velocity from the Solar System. The plaques were attached to the spacecraft's antenna support struts in a position that would shield them from erosion by interstellar dust.
The original idea, that the Pioneer spacecraft should carry a message from mankind, was first mentioned by Eric Burgess when he visited the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, during the Mariner 9 mission. He approached Carl Sagan, who had lectured about communication with extraterrestrial intelligences at a conference in Crimea.
Sagan was enthusiastic about the idea of sending a message with the Pioneer spacecraft. NASA agreed to the plan and gave him three weeks to prepare a message. Together with Frank Drake he designed the plaque, and the artwork was prepared by Sagan's then-wife Linda Salzman Sagan.
Both plaques were manufactured at Precision Engravers, San Carlos, California.
The first plaque was launched with Pioneer 10 on March 2, 1972, and the second followed with Pioneer 11 on April 5, 1973.
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