Morse Message (1962)

First soviet Planetary Radar (built in 1960), which sent the message in 1962. Eupatoria, Crimea

In 1962, a radio message in Morse code was transmitted from Evpatoria Planetary Radar (EPR) and directed to planet Venus.[1][2] The word "MIR" (Russian: Мир, it means both "peace" and "world") was transmitted from the EPR on November 19, 1962, and the words "LENIN" (Russian: Ленин) and "SSSR" (Russian: СССР, acronym for the Soviet Union (Союз Советских Социалистических Республик)) on November 24, 1962, respectively. All three words were sent using the Morse code.[3] In Russian, this letter is called Radio Message "MIR, LENIN, SSSR". This message is the first radio broadcast for extraterrestrial civilizations in the history of mankind,[1] it was also used as a test for the radar station (but was not used for measuring the distance to Venus because for distance measurements the EPR uses coherent waveform with frequency manipulation): The signal reflected from surface of Venus and was received 4 minutes 32.7 seconds (Nov 19) and 4 minutes 44.7 seconds (Nov 24) later.

Now this radio message is flying to the star HD 131336 [4] in the Libra constellation (the famous star Gliese 581, the addressee of A Message From Earth and Hello From Earth, is also located in the Libra).

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References

  1. 1 2 MIR, LENIN, SSSR
  2. ↑ The Morse Message (1962)
  3. ↑ The newspaper “Red star” at December 30, 1962 — P. 5
  4. ↑ HD131336

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