Hyderabad, April 3 -- Man's creative expression in terms of painting, sculpture or music is no longer confined to the earth as artists are sending their artefacts to the moon and beyond.

Way back in 1970s when the Pioneer 10 was launched by NASA on March 2, 1972, it carried the first six-inch by nine-inch gold plaque depicting two nude figures - a man and a woman - along with diagrams of the solar system and the sun's position in space.

It was intended to serve as a map to Earth for any curious extraterrestrial. We were excited by the hope that someday trillions of miles away, when and if, it encountered any intelligent life, they may decipher its meaning.

The flight was supposed to take the spacecraft much beyond the solar system deep...