AMAZING ANIMALS

This cat video was prerecorded on Earth before being transmitted across space. Scientists added graphics over the video that show the position of the spacecraft (the maroon mark on the dotted line) plus silly info like the cat’s heart rate. Cat Video in Space! Deep Space This funny cat video is out of this world. A kitty named Taters starred in the first video sent from deep space—the part of space that starts just beyond the moon. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which uses robotics to explore space, wanted to test the possibility of using a laser to transmit ultra-high-definition video across deep space. So Taters’s owner, a NASA employee, recorded the tabby chasing (what else?) a laser. Then the team put the video file onto a spacecraft that NASA launched to explore an asteroid. The…

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National Geographic Kids (Digital) - 1 Issue, October 2024

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