Watch: NASA Sends Cat Video To Earth From Spaceship 31 Million Km Away
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The video was beamed to Earth using a laser transceiver on the Psyche probe, which is journeying to the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter to explore a mysterious metal-rich object.
NASA on Monday announced it had used a state-of-the-art laser communication system on a spaceship 19 million miles (31 million kilometres) away from Earth -- to send a high-definition cat video. We just streamed the first ultra-HD video brought to you via laser from deep space. And it's a video of Taters, a tabby cat.This test will pave the way for high-data-rate communications in support of the next giant leap: sending humans to Mars. https://t.co/tf2hWxaHWOpic.twitter.com/c1FwybYsxA
The 15-second meow-vie featuring an orange tabby named Taters is the first to be streamed from deep space and demonstrates it's possible to transmit the higher-data-rate communications needed to support complex missions such as sending humans to Mars.
The video was beamed to Earth using a laser transceiver on the Psyche probe, which is journeying to the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter to explore a mysterious metal-rich object. When it sent the video, the spaceship was 80 times the distance between the Earth and the Moon.
