
Arecibo Message

by Monica Schroeder
Title
Arecibo Message
Artist
Monica Schroeder
Medium
Photograph
Description
Arecibo message, computer artwork. This image was beamed into space by the Arecibo radio telescope on 16th November 1974. It was aimed at the globular star cluster M13, 25,000 light years away. The original image, which is not colored, consists of a 73 row by 23 column grid and contains a binary message divided into seven parts. From the top down, and reading left to right, they are: numbers from ten to one (orange-red), atomic numbers for phosphorus, oxygen, nitrogen, carbon and hydrogen, sugar and bases in nucleotides of DNA formulas (purple), number of nucleotides in DNA (yellow), DNA double helix (red), height of humans (turquoise), human figure (ultramarine), population of Earth (fuchsia), planets of the solar system with the Sun at far right(yellow ochre), Arecibo telescope (light blue) and dimensions (lime green) . The message was created by Frank Drake and Carl Sagan.
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May 22nd, 2024
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