NASA has despatched an ultra-high definition, 15-second-long cat video over 19 million miles (over 30 million km), the area company mentioned on Monday. This was not performed for enjoyable, although the video alternative is undoubtedly some in-joke, however quite an experiment for its Deep Space Optical Communications. The video was beamed to Earth from its $1.2 billion Psyche asteroid probe launched in October 2023.
Cat vids over the void
The probe is on a six-year-long mission and is ready to journey round 2.2 billion miles (3.6 billion km) throughout its mission. Pysche is scheduled to rendevous with a uncommon, metal-rich asteroid that will clarify how the cores of rocky planets like Earth first fashioned. The video of a cat referred to as “Taters” was uploaded to the probe earlier than launch and was despatched to Earth on December 11 as a facet mission to its most important job.
