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The Xenotext participates in this legacy of exoplanetary transmission, insofar as my poem constitutes a digital payload aboard a fleet of spacecraft launched by NASA into the void. The Xenotext resides, for example, in two microchips within the vicinity of Mars: one aboard the MAVEN probe in orbit around the planet; and one aboard the InSight probe on the Martian surface at Elysium Planitia. The Xenotext has also resided in two other microchips: one aboard the OSIRIS-REx probe (visiting the asteroid Bennu); and one aboard the Hayabusa-2 probe (visiting the asteroid Ryugu). The Jamesburg Earth Station in Carmel, California, has also beamed The Xenotext to the star Gliese 526 in the constellation of Boötes (5.5 parsecs from Earth), doing so as part of a plan to communicate with any exocivilization that might be orbiting this red dwarf star.