Carl Sagan
American Explorer of the Cosmos
Carl Sagan
Carl Sagan (1980)
Carl at Age Four
From Carl Sagan’s High School Yearbook
Carl Sagan’s 1951 High School Graduation Photo from Rahway High School, where he was named the Male Class Brain and the Male Most Likely to Succeed
Yerkes Observatory (University of Chicago), Williams Bay, Wisconsin; Sagan Did His Ph.D. Research Here.
Carl and Wife Lynn Alexander (later Lynn Margulis) on Their Wedding Day (June 16th, 1957)
Leone Alexander, Carl, and Lynn Alexander
Carl and Son, Dorion
Hermann Joseph Muller, a Biology Professor Who was One of Sagan’s First Mentors
Diagram of the Miller-Urey Experiment, in which Water, Ammonia, and Methane Create Amino Acids in the Presence of an Electrical Discharge
Gerard Kuiper, Carl’s Ph.D. Dissertation Advisor at Yerkes Observatory
Joshua Lederberg, Who Coined the Term “Exobiology” (the Science of Extraterrestrial Life)
The Mariner 2 Space Probe that Flew By Venus in 1962; Carl Sagan Designed Instruments for this Probe
The Drake Equation, Formulated by Frank Drake; Drake’s Equation was Developed to Estimate the Number of Detectable Advanced Extraterrestrial Civilizations in Our Galaxy. Frank Drake Proposed His Equation at a Meeting in Green Bank, West Virginia, in November 1961
Frank Drake
Carl Sagan in a 1966 Interview on UFOs
Carl and Linda Salzman at Their Wedding (April 6, 1968)
The Pioneer 10 Plaque that Carl Sagan Designed with Wife Linda Salzman and Astronomer Frank Drake
Description of the Pioneer 10 Plaque that Carl Sagan Helped Design
Carl Sagan in Promotional Photo for the Cosmos Television Series
Sagan Next to a Model of the Viking Lander Probes which would Land on Mars Sagan Played a Major Role in the Design of the Viking 1 and 2 Landers.
The Viking Lander
Photograph of the Surface of Mars Taken by the Viking Lander
Sagan with Mars in the 1970s
Carl Sagan in 1978
Carl Sagan and Johnny Carson
Arecibo Radio Observatory, Puerto Rico
The Message that Frank Drake Beamed Towards the Hercules Star Cluster from the Arecibo Radio Observatory on November 16, 1974 (color added to illustrate components of message)
Frank Drake’s Message in Actual Binary Format (color added to illustrate components of message)
The Hercules Star Cluster (Messier Object #13)
Carl Sagan and Other Founders of the Planetary Society
Ann Druyan in the Mid-1970s
Carl Sagan and His (Third) Wife, Ann Druyan; Carl and Ann Married on June 1, 1981.
The “Golden Record” that Carl Sagan Helped Design for NASA’s Voyager 1 Spacecraft; Learn More by Clicking HERE!
The “Sounds of the Earth”
Diagram of the Voyager Space Crafts
Diagram of Voyager 2 Space Craft
Trajectories of the Voyager 1 and 2 Space Crafts
The Locations of the Voyager 1 and 2 Probes and Pioneer 10 and 11 Probes Today
Blast Off of Voyager 1
“Pale Blue Dot” - A Photograph Taken at the Request of Carl Sagan of Earth (shown here inside a blue circle) Taken in 1990 By Voyager 1 from a Distance of About 6 Billion Kilometers (3.7 Billion Miles) from Earth; In an October 13, 1994 Speech, Sagan Pointed Out that “All of Human History has Happened on that Tiny Pixel, which is Our Only Home”
The Approximate Location (Shown in Green) of Voyager 1 when it Took the “Pale Blue Dot” Photograph
Carl Sagan Promotional Photo for His Cosmos Television Series
Carl Sagan on the Cover of Time Magazine in 1980
Carl Sagan Speaking at NASA Event in 1980s
Sagan Speaks with Employees from the Centers for Disease Control in 1988
Carl Sagan During an interview in 1991
Carl Sagan’s Last Interview on the Charlie Rose Show
Carl Sagan’s Grave
Contact Movie Poster
Carl’s Widow, Ann Druyan, in 2008
Carl’s Mother Rachel