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"Earlier this year, NASA spacecraft Voyager 1 left our solar system after a 35-year journey, carrying with it a golden record containing sounds, images and music from Earth. Its sister craft, Voyager 2, carries an identical record. The records were designed to encapsulate the aural heritage of Earth in 90 minutes - but some preliminary investigation, however, reveals that there a few inaccuracies in the official NASA documentation about the golden records."

From our mobile phones to our televisions, silicon chips are a part of much of our daily lives. Where does silicon come from? Much of it comes from sand. The following video from the Chemical Heritage Foundation explains the concept of how silicon chips are created.

"One of the greatest exploration feats of all time - the Cassini mission to Saturn, followed by the release of the Huygens probe into Saturn's largest moon, Titan"