NASA Beams Cat Video from Deep Space to Earth
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NASA has successfully transmitted a 15-second ultra-high-definition video featuring a cat named Taters from deep space to Earth using a laser. The video was beamed from NASA's Psyche spacecraft, located 19 million miles away, and reached Caltech's Palomar Observatory in less than two minutes. This laser communication experiment aims to improve data transmission rates from deep space and could be crucial for future missions to the moon and Mars. More test transmissions are planned as the spacecraft heads towards the main asteroid belt, but Taters will not be making any more appearances.
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