Patterns in the Chaos

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Searching for signs of intelligent life

First image ever transmitted from the surface of Mars. it shows rocks near the footpad Viking 1 Lander (July 20, 1976). The haze on the left is possibly dust that had recently been kicked up by the landing rockets. Because of the "slow scan" facsimile nature of the cameras, the dust settled by mid-image.
The Earth straddling the limb of the moon, as seen from above Compton crater by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter on October 12, 2015. The large tan area in the upper right is the Sahara desert, and just beyond is Saudi Arabia. The Atlantic and Pacific coasts of South America are visible to the left.
Moving image .gif from the movie Science Fiction movie "Contact" from the novel by Carl Sagan. The image shows "The Machine" designed by an extraterrestrial intelligence to transport a human to another planet to meet them. The Machine's design plans were received by Dr Ellie Arroway (played by Jodie Foster) while she searched for signs of intelligent life by listening to radio static from space for "Patterns in the Chaos"
An image of the front cover of Leila Belkora's book Minding the Heavens: The Story of our Discovery of the Milky Way - 1st Edition
A print of a photograph showing the structure of M31, the Great Nebula in Andromeda (now known as the Andromeda Galaxy). Photographed by Isaac Roberts on December 29, 1888. using his 20-inch (510 mm) aperture reflecting telescope made by Grubb. The long exposure photograph revealed that the nebula had a spiral structure, which was quite unexpected at the time. Photographs such as this changed astronomy by revealing the true form of nebulae and clusters, and eventually helped to develop the theories about galaxies. He published his celestial portfolio in a large format book that is the first popular account of celestial photography of the deep sky.
A painting of the HMS Beagle in Sydney Harbour in 1838 By Ron Scobie
Photograph of the Earth rising over the Moon’s horizon taken by astronaut Bill Anders on December 24, 1968 15:40 UTC, with a highly modified Hasselblad 500 EL with an 80-mm lens loaded with custom Ektachrome 70 mm film developed by Kodak.
Photo of John Bardeen, William Shockley and Walter Brattain in 1948. This is one of a series of publicity photos produced by Bell Labs around the time of the public announcement of the invention (June 30, 1948). Although Shockley was not involved in the invention, Bell Labs decided that Shockley must appear on all publicity photos along with Bardeen and Brattain. In 1956 John Bardeen, Walter Houser Brattain, and William Bradford Shockley were honored with the Nobel Prize in Physics "for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect"
The Atlas-B rocket with SCORE on the launch pad. Project SCORE (Signal Communication by Orbiting Relay Equipment) was built into the body of the Atlas and the whole rocket orbited (without booster engines). The spacecraft body served as antenna. It captured world attention by broadcasting a message via shortwave radio from U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower through an on-board tape recorder
Photo of the first successful flight of the Wright Flyer, by the Wright brothers on December 17, 1903. The machine traveled 120 ft (36.6 m) in 12 seconds at 10:35 a.m. at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina. Orville Wright was at the controls of the machine, lying prone on the lower wing with his hips in the cradle which operated the wing-warping mechanism. Wilbur Wright ran alongside to balance the machine, and just released his hold on the forward upright of the right wing in the photo. The starting rail, the wing-rest, a coil box, and other items needed for flight preparation are visible behind the machine. This is described as "the first sustained and controlled heavier-than-air, powered flight" by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale, but is not listed by the FAI as an official record.
The world's first stamp to depict an airplane issued in the U.S on December 16, 1912. It was a 20-cent Parcel Post stamp, with carmine rose red ink, titled “Aeroplane Carrying Mail” with a drawing of a biplane.
The ascent stage of Apollo 17's Lunar Excursion Module "Challenger" lifting off from the lunar surface at Taurus-Littrow on December 14, 1972.
Artist rendering of the Relay 1 in orbit
Marconi watching associates raising the kite (a "Levitor" by B.F.S. Baden-Powell) used to lift the over 100 meters of copper wire antenna at St. John's, Newfoundland, which picked up a faint wireless signal from England. December 1901
Thor-Agena rocket launching from Vandenberg Air Force Base with Oscar 1 as a secondary payload which carried the primary mission Discoverer 36 to orbit.
Niels Bohr in 1922
The "Blue Marble" photo taken by either Ron Evans or Harrison Schmitt of the Apollo 17 crew in 1972. The original photograph was taken with the South Pole facing the top; however, this cropped and rotated version is the most widely distributed and is one of the most reproduced images in history. The photographer used a 70-millimeter Hasselblad camera with an 80-millimeter Zeiss lens.
Wiley Post and his single-engine Lockheed Vega the “Winnie Mae"
UCLA's Boelter Hall housed one of the four original ARPANET nodes. The birthplace of the Internet. Photo: UCLA Samueli School of Engineering
A drawing of Enrico Fermi and a group of scientists gathered beneath the football stands at the University of Chicago to achieve the first controlled, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction
RCA radio facsimile transmitter (left) and receiver (right) in the process of transmitting a photograph, with Richard H. Ranger the inventor of the wireless photogradiogram.
The Ford Trimotor aircraft before takeoff from the Ross Ice Shelf.
Jocelyn Bell Burnell next to the radio telescope she built and used to detect first pulsating radio source (pulsar).
Pan American Airways China Clipper flying above San Francisco.
A photograph of a later model of Edison wax cylinder phonograph released in 1896 with a capacity of 2 minutes of playback time.
Surveyor 6 panoramic view looking across a nearby boulder strewn crater rim.
The Arecibo Message as it appears when its 1,679 bits are properly aligned on a grid (left), an annotated illustration explaining its components (center), and a photograph of the message's hand-drawn first draft (right). SPL/Science Source (left and middle); Frank Drake (right).