Humanity's 'last pictures' in space disc

by CNET News.com  |  October 9, 2012, 3:20pm PDT  |  Image 1 of 10

A closeup of The Last Pictures time capsule by multimedia artist Trevor Paglen shows the gold-plated silicon disc that contains 100 black and white pictures. It's slated to launch with a communications satellite in a few months, and then continue to orbit the Earth indefinitely, perhaps outlasting humanity itself.

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