A very strange development was recently reported by NASA. As it turns out, and we confirm that this is not a joke, the crew of the Office of Space Research captured a high-resolution video from space from a distance of about 30 million kilometers. However, that’s not the weirdest part of the whole thing, but the fact that in the said footage you can see a cat chasing a red dot that was dropped by a laser pen.
On December 11, the Space Research Institute’s Deep Space Optical Communications Experiment sent streaming high-resolution video from a record distance of about 31 million kilometers, about 80 times the distance between Earth and the Moon.
The cat in the video is called Taters, and thanks to NASA’s new laser communications development, they were able to send footage of it back to Earth from such a distance, which is an important historical milestone.
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The purpose of the technological innovation was to transmit very high-bandwidth video and other data into space, paving the way for the potential success of human missions beyond Earth orbit.
NASA filmed the cat’s video months ago on Earth, before the launch of the Psyche probe. The video was also taken into outer space on board the probe, and then sent back to our planet last week. In the recording, the cat follows the light of a laser pen and looks at graphs containing various measurement data included by the researchers.
But according to the Space Research Institute, the cat video received an amazing reception, as it paved the way for communication with higher data transfer rates. The video was sent to Earth by the probe at a maximum speed of 267 megabits per second (Mbps), which would be a great performance even for a wired terrestrial Internet connection.
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pam milroy, According to NASA’s Deputy Administrator, this achievement underscores NASA’s commitment to advancing optical communications, which is critical to adapting to future data transmission needs. Increasing bandwidth is also vital for future discoveries and their scientific goals.
Now, finally, let’s watch the above-mentioned video featuring Taters the cat!
source: NASA, pcforum.hu
