Earth just received a laser message from 140 MILLION miles away, NASA reveals trends now
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Earth has just received a laser message from 140 million miles away, NASA has revealed.
But before you get carried away with visions of aliens, there's a simple explanation.
The laser was transmitted to Earth by NASA's Psyche spacecraft, which is currently 140 million miles away – 1.5 times the distance between Earth and the Sun.
The impressive feat could pave the way for future missions to Mars, according to NASA.
'This achievement provides a glimpse into how spacecraft could use optical communications in the future, enabling higher-data-rate communications of complex scientific information as well as high-definition imagery and video in support of humanity's next giant leap: sending humans to Mars,' the space agency explained.
Earth has just received a laser message from 140 million miles away, NASA has revealed. But before you get carried away with visions of aliens, there's a simple explanation (artist's impression)
The laser message was beamed to Earth by NASA's Deep Space Optical Communications transceiver, which is currently riding on board the Psyche spacecraft.
The transceiver sends and receives data through an 8.6-inch aperture telescope.
'We downlinked about 10 minutes of duplicated spacecraft data during a pass on April 8,' said Meera
