page_title: Morse Message (1962)
hierarchical_section_title: Morse Message (1962)
caption_attribution_description: English: ADU-1000 radio telescope
context_page_description: In 1962 a radio message in Morse code was transmitted from the Evpatoria Planetary Radar and directed to the planet Venus. The word “Mir” was transmitted from the EPR on November 19, 1962, and the words “Lenin” and “USSR” on November 24, 1962, respectively. All three words were sent using the Morse code. In Russian, this letter is called Radio Message “MIR, LENIN, USSR”. This message was the first radio broadcast for extraterrestrial civilizations in the history of mankind. It was also used as a test for the radar station. The signal reflected from the surface of Venus and was received 4 minutes 32.7 seconds and 4 minutes 44.7 seconds later.
  Now this radio message is flying to the star HD 131336 in the Libra constellation.
context_section_description: In 1962 a radio message in Morse code was transmitted from the Evpatoria Planetary Radar (EPR) and directed to the planet Venus. The word “Mir” (Russian: “Мир”, meaning both “peace” and “world”) was transmitted from the EPR on November 19, 1962, and the words “Lenin” (Russian: “Ленин”) and “USSR” (Russian: “СССР”, the abbreviation for the Soviet Union — Russian: Сою́з Сове́тских Социалисти́ческих Респу́блик, Soyúz Soviétskikh Sotsialistícheskikh Respúblik) on November 24, 1962, respectively. All three words were sent using the Morse code. In Russian, this letter is called Radio Message “MIR, LENIN, USSR”. This message was the first radio broadcast for extraterrestrial civilizations in the history of mankind. 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 a coherent waveform with frequency manipulation). The signal reflected from the 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 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).
caption: The first Soviet Planetary Radar, built in 1960 and which sent the message in 1962 and is located in the Crimean town of Yevpatoria (Jevpatorija), in the then Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.
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