The feline frontier: NASA sends cat video from deep space
Washington (AFP) - NASA on Monday announced it had used a state-of-the-art laser communication system on a spaceship 19 million miles (31 million kilometers) away from Earth -- to send a high-definition cat video. The 15-second meow-vie featuring an orange tabby named Taters is the first to be streamed from deep space, and demonstrates it's possible to transmit the higher-data-rate communications needed to support complex missions such as sending humans to Mars. The video was beamed to Earth using a laser transceiver on the Psyche probe, which is journeying to the main asteroid belt between Ma...