It’s not every day that a video of a cat goes viral.
OK, it’s not every day that a video of a cat goes viral and marks a historical� milestone for space exploration. But that’s what happened when NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications experiment beamed an ultra-high definition streaming video back to Earth on Dec. 11 from 31 million kilometers away, or about 80 times the Earth-Moon distance.
The 15-second test video is part of a NASA technology demonstration aimed at streaming very high-bandwidth video and other data from deep space — enabling future human missions beyond Earth’s orbit, according to the space agency’s press release.
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