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Voyager 1
The Voyager 1 spacecraft, launched in 1977, is the <hl>farthest human-made object from Earth</hl> — currently over 15 billion miles away in interstellar space. It carries a Golden Record with sounds, music, and images of Earth for any alien civilization that might find it.
SrcNASA JPL

Next evidence →magnetic fieldEarth's magnetic field extends roughly 40,000 miles into space, forming a protective bubble called the magnetosphere that shields us from the Sun's deadly solar wind. Without it, our atmosphere would be stripped away — like what happened to Mars.

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