Meow from Mars: Nasa streams cat video from craft 30 million km away

Taters the orange tabby stars in the 15-second movie beamed to Earth using laser transceiver in a test for future human travel.

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00:00 NASA has used a state-of-the-art laser communication system on a spaceship 31 million kilometres

00:06 away from Earth to send a high-definition cat video.

00:09 The 15-second movie featuring an orange tabby named Tatters is the first to be streamed

00:14 from deep space. It took just 101 seconds to travel to Earth after being sent by an

00:19 instrument on NASA's Psyche probe. Videos have already been transmitted via this laser

00:23 technology from space, but from much closer. NASA wants to use this instead of traditional

00:28 radio communications in preparation for sending manned missions to Mars.

00:32 (whooshing)