<a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/NASA" title="NASA">NASA</a> image of Pioneer 10's famed <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_plaque" class="extiw" title="w:Pioneer plaque">Pioneer plaque</a> features a design engraved into a gold-anodized aluminum plate, 152 by 229 millimeters (6 by 9 inches), attached to the spacecraft's antenna support struts to help shield it from erosion by interstellar dust.
<p>Designed by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan" class="extiw" title="w:Carl Sagan">Carl Sagan</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Drake" class="extiw" title="w:Frank Drake">Frank Drake</a>.  Artwork prepared by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Salzman_Sagan" class="extiw" title="w:Linda Salzman Sagan">Linda Salzman Sagan</a>.
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Photograph by <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://ails.arc.nasa.gov/">NASA Ames Resarch Center (NASA-ARC)</a>
<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nasa.gov/lb/centers/ames/news/releases/2001/01images/Pioneer10/pioneer10.html">Ames Pioneer 10</a>