Spacecraft carrying artefacts
Spacecraft containing artefacts have also been launched from Earth, hoping intelligent life-forms will eventually find them.
Voyagers 1 and 2 were launched in 1977 and carried a Golden Record containing music, ambient sounds from Earth and 116 images of our planet and solar system.
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