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If you ask most “regular people,” they would likely admit that wrapping their heads around how far away things actually are in space is a bit of a stretch.
I know that’s true for me.
So, it almost seems impossible that NASA would be able to receive a message from 140 million miles out.
The Psyche mission was dispatched to study a strange asteroid and for NASA to test a new communication system.
It doesn’t use radio waves but an infrared laser, and so far, has not been successfully tested from such a long way.
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