It’s one small footprint for Taters the cat, one giant leap for humanity.
An adorable video of the orange and white tabby made history after he was transported to Earth from deep space.
He 15 second clip was sent from NASA’s Psyche asteroid probe on Dec. 11 and traveled 19 million miles, the space agency announced Monday.
The video, which shows the kitten chasing a red dot with a laser pointer, was uploaded to the $1.2 billion spacecraft ahead of its launch in October.
It’s the first time NASA has streamed high-definition video from deep space and downloaded it faster than most Internet connections on Earth.
“Despite streaming from millions of miles away, it was able to send video faster than most broadband Internet connections,” Ryan Rogalin, who worked on the project, said in a statement.
The HD images were sent from Psyche as it traveled to an asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The images were transmitted through a new state-of-the-art laser instrument and took just 101 seconds to reach our planet.
The orange and white tabby, Taters, can be seen jumping around a couch to catch a red laser dot in typical feline style, as a 15-second video uploaded by NASA shows. YouTube/JPLraw
Scientists hope this technological achievement can pave the way for the next scientific breakthrough: humans traveling to other planets.
The first experiment of its kind by NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communication was part of a project that will hopefully enable “future human missions beyond Earth’s orbit,” according to a press release.
“Increasing our bandwidth is essential to achieving our future science and exploration goals, and we look forward to the continued advancement of this technology and the transformation of the way we communicate during future interplanetary missions,” said NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy.
Although the video may look like many other cat videos on the Internet, this particular one was beamed to Earth from 19 million miles away on December 11. YouTube/JPLraw Tates made his space debut via an instrument called a laser flight transceiver. , which sent a “near-infrared scrambled laser” to the Hale Telescope at Caltech’s Palomar Observatory in San Diego County, California. It took 101 seconds for the video to reach Earth, where it was then downloaded at the observatory and then sent “live” to the company’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, where the video was played in real time. X/@NASAJPL
The project’s researchers said they normally send “randomly generated test data packets,” but this time they decided to use the cat video.
“To make this important event more memorable, we decided to work with designers from [the Jet Propulsion Laboratory] “Creating a fun video that captures the essence of the demonstration is part of Psyche’s mission,” said Bill Klipstein, project manager for the technology demonstration.
The cute clip was filmed on Earth and uploaded before the launch of the Psyche mission on October 13. The footage also shows Taters’ race and heart rate, as well as Psyche’s orbital path, among other information.
Taters’ video was uploaded before the launch of the Psyche mission on October 13. The video includes graphics on the screen, including “this is a test” and even Taters’ race and heart rate, as well as Psyche’s orbital path, among others. other things. NASA/JPL-Caltech
Taters made his space debut via an instrument called a flight laser transceiver, which beamed a “near-infrared encoded laser” to the Hale Telescope at Caltech’s Palomar Observatory in San Diego County, California.
The video was downloaded at the observatory and then sent “live” to the company’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, where it was played back in real time.
Taters, whom “everyone loves,” according to Rogalin, belongs to an employee at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
The frontier feline was chosen because the team was inspired by the television quiz broadcast in 1928 that featured Felix the cat.
Plus, who doesn’t love cat videos?
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