10million miles away...a message comes from space to planet Earth
10 million miles away...a message comes from space to planet Earth
NASA has announced that a message from 10 million miles away has reached Earth, but it's not a strange message warning us that we will all die, or that they will come in peace.
But the message, sent by laser beam, comes from NASA, where scientists are trying to find better ways to communicate with technology in space.
According to the Daily Star newspaper, the experiment was conducted by the Deep Space optical communications instrument that was traveling on NASA's Psyche spacecraft, and sent the message from a greater distance than the moon on which it is currently floating.
A message from space to NASA
The message is now believed to be the farthest visual communication sent in history, and was only encrypted to ensure the experiment worked properly.
However, the content of the message is unknown, but a NASA spokesperson said that “the Aviation Laser Transceiver – a sophisticated instrument aboard the Psyche ship capable of sending and receiving near-infrared signals – is locked to a powerful uplink laser beacon transmitted from space.” “,and the Optical Communications Telescope Laboratory at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Table Mountain Facility near Wrightwood, California.
“Obtaining first light is one of many critical DSOC milestones in the coming months, paving the way toward higher data rate communications capable of sending scientific information and high-resolution images,” said Trudy Curtis, technology demonstration manager at NASA Headquarters.
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