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How NASA streamed a video of a cat named Taters from deep space
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0:31Now PlayingTaters the Cat made history as a video of him chasing a laser was streamed from deep space by NASA in a first-of-its-kind experiment.
The orange and white tabby cat can be seeing jumping around a couch to catch a red laser dot in typical feline fashion, a 15-second video uploaded by NASA shows.
Although the video may appear to be like plenty of other cat videos on the internet, this particular one was beamed to Earth from 19 million miles away on Dec. 11.
NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications experiment beamed an “ultra-high definition streaming video” as part of a project that will hopefully enable “future human missions beyond Earth’s orbit,” a press release said.
“This accomplishment underscores our commitment to advancing optical communications as a key element to meeting our future data transmission needs,” NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy said.
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