1 00:00:07,680 --> 00:00:10,280 Speaker 1: Hey, or sometimes I like to think about what it 2 00:00:10,320 --> 00:00:13,200 Speaker 1: would be like to get a visit from future scientists 3 00:00:13,200 --> 00:00:16,239 Speaker 1: who come with like answers to some of our biggest questions. 4 00:00:16,600 --> 00:00:19,320 Speaker 1: Oh man, I mean like how did the universe form? 5 00:00:19,520 --> 00:00:23,640 Speaker 1: Or how big is it? Or who's going to be president? 6 00:00:23,920 --> 00:00:26,480 Speaker 1: Yeah exactly. I want to know the answer to those questions, 7 00:00:26,640 --> 00:00:29,600 Speaker 1: and I expect them to have it. But sometimes that 8 00:00:29,640 --> 00:00:33,120 Speaker 1: makes me kind of nervous. Nervous. Why do you feel nervous, 9 00:00:33,159 --> 00:00:36,160 Speaker 1: because then I feel pressure. I imagine like if I 10 00:00:36,200 --> 00:00:39,440 Speaker 1: went to visit ancient scientists, then I'd be on the 11 00:00:39,479 --> 00:00:43,120 Speaker 1: spot to answer their questions about the universe. Is that 12 00:00:43,200 --> 00:00:46,839 Speaker 1: like a physics professor's recurring nightmare going up against a 13 00:00:46,920 --> 00:00:48,920 Speaker 1: rout full of people and not having the answer to 14 00:00:48,960 --> 00:00:51,320 Speaker 1: something that's right, I'm talking to Plato and I'm wearing 15 00:00:51,400 --> 00:00:55,320 Speaker 1: nothing under my toga Um. Yeah exactly. But but the 16 00:00:55,760 --> 00:00:57,760 Speaker 1: reason I worry about is that sometimes I feel like 17 00:00:57,880 --> 00:01:01,000 Speaker 1: we still don't have answers to some of their questions. 18 00:01:01,960 --> 00:01:04,560 Speaker 1: You mean, like simple questions that maybe they had back then. 19 00:01:05,280 --> 00:01:07,919 Speaker 1: You feel like we still don't even know the answer 20 00:01:07,920 --> 00:01:10,200 Speaker 1: to them. Yeah, Like if you could go talk to Galileo, 21 00:01:10,440 --> 00:01:12,480 Speaker 1: you know, who looked at the moons of Jupiter. I'm 22 00:01:12,520 --> 00:01:14,480 Speaker 1: sure he would have a lot of questions about their 23 00:01:14,480 --> 00:01:16,679 Speaker 1: solar system, and some of them we have answers to, 24 00:01:16,800 --> 00:01:19,760 Speaker 1: and some of them are still open questions. That's a 25 00:01:19,800 --> 00:01:22,240 Speaker 1: bit embarrassing. Yeah, I think I know what you mean 26 00:01:22,280 --> 00:01:25,440 Speaker 1: of heard that there is a big mystery right here 27 00:01:25,480 --> 00:01:28,840 Speaker 1: in our solar system that is literally staring at us. 28 00:01:30,160 --> 00:01:32,440 Speaker 1: That's right. We don't have an answer to We stare 29 00:01:32,480 --> 00:01:51,920 Speaker 1: in it and it stares back. Hi am forhand and 30 00:01:52,040 --> 00:01:54,800 Speaker 1: I'm Daniel, and welcome to our podcast, Daniel and Jorge 31 00:01:55,040 --> 00:01:58,440 Speaker 1: Explain the Universe, a production of I Heart Radio where 32 00:01:58,480 --> 00:02:00,760 Speaker 1: we think about how to answer question into the universe, 33 00:02:00,880 --> 00:02:04,280 Speaker 1: questions in the future, questions in the past, questions from today, 34 00:02:04,480 --> 00:02:07,360 Speaker 1: questions from tomorrow, any questions you have about the universe. 35 00:02:07,600 --> 00:02:10,880 Speaker 1: We are here to explain the answers to you. That's right. 36 00:02:10,919 --> 00:02:13,320 Speaker 1: In this program, we talked about the big questions and 37 00:02:13,360 --> 00:02:17,400 Speaker 1: the little questions, and the big isar questions, that's right. 38 00:02:17,520 --> 00:02:20,440 Speaker 1: We talked about the calm questions and the stormy questions, 39 00:02:21,400 --> 00:02:25,040 Speaker 1: the red hot, red hot, burning questions people have. That's right. 40 00:02:25,080 --> 00:02:28,080 Speaker 1: But this is not a podcast about stormy Daniels. Now 41 00:02:28,160 --> 00:02:32,760 Speaker 1: this is a podcast about other kinds of storms, that's right. Yeah. 42 00:02:32,840 --> 00:02:34,400 Speaker 1: So to the end of program, we thought we would 43 00:02:34,440 --> 00:02:38,760 Speaker 1: tackle a question that was discovered a long time ago 44 00:02:38,880 --> 00:02:42,520 Speaker 1: by scientists, but for which we still don't have an answer. 45 00:02:42,720 --> 00:02:45,960 Speaker 1: That's right, an open question people are still wondering about. 46 00:02:46,280 --> 00:02:48,600 Speaker 1: We might not get an answer today, might not tomorrow, 47 00:02:48,720 --> 00:02:52,040 Speaker 1: might be another hundred years before we figure this one out. Yeah, 48 00:02:52,040 --> 00:02:55,160 Speaker 1: but hopefully we'll find the answer before it shrinks to nothing. 49 00:02:56,440 --> 00:02:59,359 Speaker 1: That's right. And this one really does hearken back to 50 00:02:59,520 --> 00:03:03,119 Speaker 1: folks Galileo who first peered through their telescopes and looked 51 00:03:03,160 --> 00:03:06,240 Speaker 1: out at the sky and studied Jupiter. And when they 52 00:03:06,240 --> 00:03:09,799 Speaker 1: looked at Jupiter, they saw something pretty strange. They saw 53 00:03:09,840 --> 00:03:12,960 Speaker 1: that Jupiter was staring back at them. That's right. If 54 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:15,800 Speaker 1: you've looked through a telescope, then you've noticed that Jupiter 55 00:03:15,880 --> 00:03:18,680 Speaker 1: has a big spot on it, right. Yeah. But of 56 00:03:18,680 --> 00:03:21,280 Speaker 1: course people have been thinking about this and wondering about 57 00:03:21,320 --> 00:03:24,560 Speaker 1: this for generations. It's not a new question, right. And 58 00:03:24,680 --> 00:03:27,120 Speaker 1: we received this question actually from one of our younger 59 00:03:27,120 --> 00:03:30,399 Speaker 1: listeners just the other day. So to introduce you to 60 00:03:30,200 --> 00:03:35,920 Speaker 1: today's topic, here's Judah Hi, my Nami Judah. I'm from 61 00:03:35,960 --> 00:03:41,279 Speaker 1: Los Angeles, California, and I really enjoy listen to your podcast, 62 00:03:41,520 --> 00:03:51,360 Speaker 1: and I have a question. My question is how did 63 00:03:51,400 --> 00:03:56,120 Speaker 1: Jupiter's eye form to other planets have eyes? That's right, 64 00:03:56,200 --> 00:03:59,080 Speaker 1: the Great Red Spot of Jupiter one of the most 65 00:03:59,200 --> 00:04:03,160 Speaker 1: prominent feature is on any object in the Solar System, 66 00:04:03,240 --> 00:04:06,000 Speaker 1: and we still don't really know what it's all about. 67 00:04:06,480 --> 00:04:08,760 Speaker 1: Mm hm. That's an interesting way to categorize it. It's 68 00:04:08,760 --> 00:04:13,200 Speaker 1: like to be the biggest feature ever or right, It's 69 00:04:13,200 --> 00:04:14,960 Speaker 1: like a it's a good thing on a thing, but 70 00:04:15,040 --> 00:04:17,920 Speaker 1: it's so big that it's the biggest feature on anything 71 00:04:17,960 --> 00:04:19,680 Speaker 1: that we know about. That's right. That makes it it's 72 00:04:19,839 --> 00:04:21,360 Speaker 1: it's not even a thing in itself. Right, it's a 73 00:04:21,400 --> 00:04:24,240 Speaker 1: thing on another thing, and it's still huge, and it's 74 00:04:24,279 --> 00:04:27,279 Speaker 1: still a mystery. And to give people a sense of 75 00:04:27,320 --> 00:04:30,040 Speaker 1: the scale, you know, the Great Red Spot in Jupiter 76 00:04:30,560 --> 00:04:33,320 Speaker 1: is like one or two times the size of the 77 00:04:33,560 --> 00:04:36,720 Speaker 1: entire Earth. Right, this is not like a little detail 78 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:38,840 Speaker 1: on some other planet. We're not talking about a rock 79 00:04:38,920 --> 00:04:41,080 Speaker 1: on the Moon or something. We're talking about a huge 80 00:04:41,279 --> 00:04:45,120 Speaker 1: astronomical feature. When we have you guys, do a quick 81 00:04:45,200 --> 00:04:47,440 Speaker 1: image Google search for the eye of Jupiter, and so 82 00:04:47,520 --> 00:04:49,599 Speaker 1: you get a sort of a better sense of what 83 00:04:49,640 --> 00:04:51,640 Speaker 1: we're talking about, that's right, Or if you don't have 84 00:04:51,680 --> 00:04:53,599 Speaker 1: the Internet handy, you just use your mind's eye and 85 00:04:53,640 --> 00:04:56,279 Speaker 1: remember what it looks like. Imagine what Jupiter looks like. 86 00:04:56,279 --> 00:04:59,479 Speaker 1: It's got all these bands across it, a little swirling 87 00:04:59,480 --> 00:05:01,919 Speaker 1: dots in it, but then on the southern part of it, 88 00:05:01,960 --> 00:05:05,200 Speaker 1: the bottom half of it, it's got this big red spot. 89 00:05:05,760 --> 00:05:07,719 Speaker 1: And imagine that you're an astronomer. You're one of the 90 00:05:07,720 --> 00:05:10,880 Speaker 1: first people who look at Jupiter. Of course you're gonna wonder, like, 91 00:05:11,120 --> 00:05:13,640 Speaker 1: what's that? Right? What is that thing? What's going on there? 92 00:05:13,720 --> 00:05:16,919 Speaker 1: Is that made artificially? Is it natural? How could it 93 00:05:16,960 --> 00:05:19,760 Speaker 1: be natural? What could it be? There's so many questions 94 00:05:19,800 --> 00:05:22,880 Speaker 1: inspired by this one astronomical feature. And the thing that 95 00:05:22,920 --> 00:05:25,280 Speaker 1: I love about it is that we still don't know 96 00:05:25,320 --> 00:05:27,680 Speaker 1: that it's still, you know, staring back at us and 97 00:05:27,720 --> 00:05:31,000 Speaker 1: resisting all of our efforts to understand it. Right, Yeah, 98 00:05:31,120 --> 00:05:33,280 Speaker 1: because it's a it's kind of an eyesore, I mean 99 00:05:33,320 --> 00:05:36,680 Speaker 1: to plunts aside. The whole planet is sort of like 100 00:05:36,800 --> 00:05:40,880 Speaker 1: beige and brown, but then it has this ginormous really 101 00:05:40,920 --> 00:05:43,479 Speaker 1: red like not a little red, but like pretty red 102 00:05:43,800 --> 00:05:46,680 Speaker 1: giant spot. It's so you don't like it. You think 103 00:05:46,880 --> 00:05:48,919 Speaker 1: Jupiter should wear makeup. It's like a big ZiT on 104 00:05:48,960 --> 00:05:52,720 Speaker 1: the face of Jupiter. Maybe that's what it is. I 105 00:05:52,839 --> 00:05:56,080 Speaker 1: have Jupiter. Maybe Jupiter is a teenager, right, and it's 106 00:05:56,120 --> 00:05:58,400 Speaker 1: so embarrassed and it doesn't want to talk about it, 107 00:05:58,520 --> 00:06:01,120 Speaker 1: and now it's mad at Jupiter and one day it's 108 00:06:01,120 --> 00:06:05,240 Speaker 1: gonna pop. It's gonna pop. No, I think it's gorgeous. 109 00:06:05,320 --> 00:06:08,600 Speaker 1: I love the patterns and the swirls. I mean, imagine 110 00:06:08,600 --> 00:06:10,880 Speaker 1: if Jupiter was just like blank, you know, it's just 111 00:06:10,960 --> 00:06:14,520 Speaker 1: like one big sort of gray mush, you know, it 112 00:06:14,520 --> 00:06:17,160 Speaker 1: would be so boring. I love the texture and the features. 113 00:06:17,200 --> 00:06:20,000 Speaker 1: And Jupiter is fascinating because it inspires all these questions 114 00:06:20,040 --> 00:06:23,000 Speaker 1: and it's an opportunity to learn and and just aesthetically, 115 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:24,719 Speaker 1: I think it looks pretty cool. I think you should 116 00:06:24,720 --> 00:06:27,680 Speaker 1: have more spots on yourself or hey, how do you know? 117 00:06:27,720 --> 00:06:30,720 Speaker 1: I don't know, but I guess what I mean. It's 118 00:06:30,760 --> 00:06:32,960 Speaker 1: it's like a very defined feature, you know what I mean. 119 00:06:32,960 --> 00:06:37,080 Speaker 1: It's like not a diffuse, you know, like um spot. 120 00:06:37,200 --> 00:06:40,160 Speaker 1: It's not like a you know, like somebody spray painted 121 00:06:40,400 --> 00:06:43,040 Speaker 1: and it's fuzzy on the size. It's like a has 122 00:06:43,080 --> 00:06:45,560 Speaker 1: a border and an edge, and it's in a very 123 00:06:45,600 --> 00:06:48,560 Speaker 1: sharp red You're you're exactly like there's real contrast there 124 00:06:48,720 --> 00:06:52,040 Speaker 1: between the red spot and the stuff immediately next to it, right, 125 00:06:52,600 --> 00:06:55,440 Speaker 1: So it's it's definitely its own thing, right and that 126 00:06:55,600 --> 00:06:58,960 Speaker 1: that and that raises a lot of questions right there. Well, 127 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:01,359 Speaker 1: and you're saying it's the size of two earths, like 128 00:07:01,400 --> 00:07:04,640 Speaker 1: you could fit two of our planets in that spot. Yeah, 129 00:07:04,680 --> 00:07:07,240 Speaker 1: And if you ever wanted to feel small and insignificant, 130 00:07:07,600 --> 00:07:09,960 Speaker 1: you know, are your tiny compared to our planet? And 131 00:07:09,960 --> 00:07:13,840 Speaker 1: our planet is tiny compared to just features on other planets, 132 00:07:13,920 --> 00:07:16,280 Speaker 1: you know, not even other planets, just like stuff on 133 00:07:16,320 --> 00:07:19,840 Speaker 1: those planets. So there are pimples and other planets that 134 00:07:19,880 --> 00:07:24,080 Speaker 1: are bigger than our planets, that's what you're saying. That's right. Um, 135 00:07:24,080 --> 00:07:25,960 Speaker 1: I don't know what what happened when you pop an 136 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:30,600 Speaker 1: Earth size pimple. Um, Please don't don't imagine that, folks. 137 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:33,920 Speaker 1: But yeah, exactly, it's amazing the skill, right, Like just 138 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:38,480 Speaker 1: to go across this giant spot would be akin to 139 00:07:39,480 --> 00:07:44,120 Speaker 1: flying around the world, right, Yeah, exactly, Um, exactly, it's 140 00:07:44,200 --> 00:07:47,880 Speaker 1: huge and it's sort of got its own like um patterns, 141 00:07:47,920 --> 00:07:51,400 Speaker 1: you know, it itself. It rotates around Jupiter. It takes 142 00:07:51,680 --> 00:07:54,680 Speaker 1: six days to go around Jupiter. The spot itself moves 143 00:07:54,800 --> 00:07:59,880 Speaker 1: around what it moves Yeah, well it's spins, right, It rotates, 144 00:08:00,200 --> 00:08:02,920 Speaker 1: and then the spot itself moves around Jupiter. Jupiter has 145 00:08:02,960 --> 00:08:06,320 Speaker 1: all these bands of gas are flowing in different directions, 146 00:08:06,320 --> 00:08:09,320 Speaker 1: and this spot goes around Jupiter. Takes about six earth 147 00:08:09,400 --> 00:08:12,560 Speaker 1: days to make one transit, so it's not tied to 148 00:08:12,640 --> 00:08:15,840 Speaker 1: the to those hard surface of Jupiter. It's like a 149 00:08:15,880 --> 00:08:18,840 Speaker 1: floating spot. Well, we can get into that, but we 150 00:08:18,880 --> 00:08:22,000 Speaker 1: don't actually know that much about what's under the red 151 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:24,480 Speaker 1: spot and how deep it goes and it's connection to 152 00:08:24,520 --> 00:08:26,560 Speaker 1: what's underneath that. A lot of that is a mystery 153 00:08:26,640 --> 00:08:29,360 Speaker 1: because Jupiter is a hot and wet and nasty place 154 00:08:29,400 --> 00:08:32,640 Speaker 1: and pretty difficult to study. Wow, all right, let's get 155 00:08:32,679 --> 00:08:35,160 Speaker 1: into it. But first, as usual, we were wondering how 156 00:08:35,200 --> 00:08:38,400 Speaker 1: many people out there knew the answer or thought they 157 00:08:38,440 --> 00:08:41,920 Speaker 1: had the answer to the question what's in Jupiter's red spot? Yeah, 158 00:08:41,960 --> 00:08:44,080 Speaker 1: so I walked around the campus if you see Irvine, 159 00:08:44,400 --> 00:08:47,559 Speaker 1: and I asked them what they knew about Jupiter's red spot. 160 00:08:47,920 --> 00:08:50,280 Speaker 1: So think about it for a second and and think about, well, 161 00:08:50,280 --> 00:08:53,320 Speaker 1: how would you answer a random physics professors stopping in 162 00:08:53,320 --> 00:08:56,440 Speaker 1: the middle of the street ask the what is in 163 00:08:56,640 --> 00:08:59,120 Speaker 1: Jupiter's Red spot? Yeah? You would you take out your 164 00:08:59,120 --> 00:09:01,280 Speaker 1: pepper spray, would pull out your taser? Or would you 165 00:09:01,320 --> 00:09:05,800 Speaker 1: answer his questions? Do you take out your physics reference book? 166 00:09:06,480 --> 00:09:09,480 Speaker 1: That's right? That's right. So here's what folks on the E. C. 167 00:09:09,640 --> 00:09:11,880 Speaker 1: I campus had to say. What is in the Great 168 00:09:11,920 --> 00:09:14,600 Speaker 1: Red Spot of Jupiter? What's going on there in the 169 00:09:14,640 --> 00:09:19,920 Speaker 1: Great Red Spot of Jupiter? Oh? Something hot? Say it's 170 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:25,840 Speaker 1: nasty and wet, No, but definitely hot. Yeah, um, I 171 00:09:25,960 --> 00:09:31,480 Speaker 1: have no Okay, probably some like plasma reactions. I don't know, 172 00:09:31,600 --> 00:09:35,360 Speaker 1: something something at like high temperature and like high freshure. Okay. 173 00:09:36,240 --> 00:09:40,000 Speaker 1: Isn't a tornado of some sorts, that's right, Yeah, a 174 00:09:40,120 --> 00:09:43,400 Speaker 1: very big one. Okay. No, I don't know. Okay, No, 175 00:09:43,520 --> 00:09:46,280 Speaker 1: I haven't looked into that. Okay. I think I've heard 176 00:09:46,280 --> 00:09:48,760 Speaker 1: some things about how there's storms going on in there 177 00:09:48,800 --> 00:09:51,440 Speaker 1: that might be causing that. It's like a storm of 178 00:09:51,559 --> 00:09:55,440 Speaker 1: some sort, right, like a like a never ending storm 179 00:09:55,559 --> 00:09:57,160 Speaker 1: or as far as we know, because it's been there 180 00:09:57,200 --> 00:10:01,200 Speaker 1: for a very long time, Um, and I think that's all. 181 00:10:01,880 --> 00:10:03,920 Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not quite sure that refers to but 182 00:10:04,200 --> 00:10:05,880 Speaker 1: it might just be like I know that there are 183 00:10:06,040 --> 00:10:08,880 Speaker 1: large dust storms on Jupiter. That might be to what 184 00:10:08,920 --> 00:10:11,160 Speaker 1: you're referring. And I understand the question, correct, rain, it 185 00:10:11,280 --> 00:10:13,720 Speaker 1: might be something like a gigantic supercell that's been raging 186 00:10:13,760 --> 00:10:16,079 Speaker 1: for many years on Jupiter and little Ridge for many 187 00:10:16,160 --> 00:10:19,240 Speaker 1: years in the future. All Right, some not safe for 188 00:10:19,320 --> 00:10:23,720 Speaker 1: work as is here. Let's just say there's a broad 189 00:10:23,800 --> 00:10:28,160 Speaker 1: variety of responses. Yeah, nobody said pimple. Though nobody called 190 00:10:28,160 --> 00:10:29,600 Speaker 1: it the ZiT on the face of Jupiter. I think 191 00:10:29,640 --> 00:10:32,679 Speaker 1: your theory is in trouble there, man. But no, I mean, 192 00:10:32,720 --> 00:10:35,440 Speaker 1: some people said it was something hot. I wonder what 193 00:10:35,480 --> 00:10:37,959 Speaker 1: they were thinking. Yeah, And another common theme is people 194 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:40,839 Speaker 1: thinking of it is a storm like a dust storm, right. 195 00:10:41,040 --> 00:10:43,360 Speaker 1: I think they're imagining they're like the red sand on 196 00:10:43,480 --> 00:10:46,720 Speaker 1: Mars or something like that. Um, but a storm is 197 00:10:46,720 --> 00:10:49,319 Speaker 1: on the right track, right. It's definitely a huge swirling 198 00:10:49,440 --> 00:10:53,800 Speaker 1: mass of gas like a hurricane, right, very high winds, 199 00:10:53,840 --> 00:10:55,920 Speaker 1: and so a storm is is not a terrible answer. 200 00:10:56,000 --> 00:10:57,920 Speaker 1: A storm is pretty is a pretty good way to 201 00:10:57,960 --> 00:11:00,920 Speaker 1: describe it. Okay, So there's a general understanding out there 202 00:11:00,920 --> 00:11:04,120 Speaker 1: that it's kind of like a weather phenomenon or it's um. 203 00:11:04,160 --> 00:11:07,120 Speaker 1: It's swirling. It's not like, it's not that the rock 204 00:11:07,240 --> 00:11:10,000 Speaker 1: is painted red under there, that's right. Yeah, it's not 205 00:11:10,080 --> 00:11:12,160 Speaker 1: a huge piece of art on the on the surface 206 00:11:12,160 --> 00:11:15,360 Speaker 1: of Jupiter or anything. It's um. Yeah. I think people 207 00:11:15,360 --> 00:11:17,960 Speaker 1: are familiar with the fact that Jupiter is a gas planet, right, 208 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:19,880 Speaker 1: So we're not looking at the surface in the same 209 00:11:19,920 --> 00:11:22,600 Speaker 1: way that we look at the surface of Mars. When 210 00:11:22,640 --> 00:11:24,800 Speaker 1: we look at Jupiter, there isn't the surface there for 211 00:11:24,880 --> 00:11:26,720 Speaker 1: us to see. We're looking at sort of the top 212 00:11:26,800 --> 00:11:29,440 Speaker 1: of the Jovian atmosphere, and what we're seeing is a 213 00:11:29,440 --> 00:11:32,400 Speaker 1: big swirling mass. And so I think it's thinking about 214 00:11:32,400 --> 00:11:38,960 Speaker 1: his weather is is a good way to think about it. Alright, 215 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:41,199 Speaker 1: So let's let's start with some basics. Well, let's talk 216 00:11:41,200 --> 00:11:43,880 Speaker 1: about Jupiter and what that planet is like. Yeah, so 217 00:11:43,960 --> 00:11:46,800 Speaker 1: let's start from the inside out right, So, and compared 218 00:11:46,880 --> 00:11:48,640 Speaker 1: to Earth, Earth, as we know, is like a big 219 00:11:48,720 --> 00:11:51,000 Speaker 1: rocky ball with hot, nasty stuff on the inside and 220 00:11:51,040 --> 00:11:54,760 Speaker 1: then a very thin atmosphere surrounding it, Jupiter is really 221 00:11:54,800 --> 00:11:58,160 Speaker 1: pretty different. It has a rocky, icy core. We think 222 00:11:58,640 --> 00:12:01,640 Speaker 1: but it's pretty small, and it's mostly a huge ball 223 00:12:01,679 --> 00:12:05,319 Speaker 1: of hydrogen, and the hydrogen is under such pressure from 224 00:12:05,320 --> 00:12:08,240 Speaker 1: all the gravity from Jupiter being so massive that the 225 00:12:08,280 --> 00:12:10,680 Speaker 1: hydrogen is not like the hydrogen you imagine, like the 226 00:12:10,679 --> 00:12:13,599 Speaker 1: big tank of gas or something. Most of Jupiter is 227 00:12:13,640 --> 00:12:17,880 Speaker 1: this huge ball of metallic hydrogen, right, hydrogen that's been 228 00:12:17,920 --> 00:12:21,440 Speaker 1: squeezed and so much that it's turned into a metal. 229 00:12:22,280 --> 00:12:24,640 Speaker 1: And then on top of that you have a liquid 230 00:12:24,760 --> 00:12:28,199 Speaker 1: hydrogen ocean. Right, And this is not something you ever 231 00:12:28,240 --> 00:12:30,640 Speaker 1: wanted to put a swimsuit on and dive into and 232 00:12:30,800 --> 00:12:34,040 Speaker 1: be a little chili. No, I think it'd be really hot. Actually, 233 00:12:34,080 --> 00:12:36,680 Speaker 1: I think it's a it's liquid and it's under high 234 00:12:36,679 --> 00:12:39,960 Speaker 1: pressure and temperature, so it's a it's a pretty crazy 235 00:12:39,960 --> 00:12:44,840 Speaker 1: place to be, but not nasty and wet. That's subjective, 236 00:12:44,880 --> 00:12:47,360 Speaker 1: so I'll defer that to the first person to actually 237 00:12:47,360 --> 00:12:49,720 Speaker 1: swim in the oceans of Jupiter. And then on top 238 00:12:49,720 --> 00:12:52,720 Speaker 1: of that liquid ocean, you have gaseous hydrogen. You have 239 00:12:52,800 --> 00:12:55,439 Speaker 1: just like hydrogen that we're more familiar with. And then 240 00:12:55,440 --> 00:12:57,520 Speaker 1: on top of that you have clouds that are like 241 00:12:57,760 --> 00:13:00,640 Speaker 1: maybe thirty miles deep. So it's so it's like a 242 00:13:00,720 --> 00:13:04,120 Speaker 1: layer cake of different flavors of hydrogen. Like the more 243 00:13:04,280 --> 00:13:07,480 Speaker 1: compressive gets it, it actually first turns liquid and then 244 00:13:07,520 --> 00:13:10,360 Speaker 1: it actually turns into like solid hydrogen. Is that what 245 00:13:10,400 --> 00:13:13,760 Speaker 1: you're saying that it actually forms like a solid hydrogen 246 00:13:13,920 --> 00:13:17,240 Speaker 1: like a block of hydrogen. Wow, not exactly. It is metallic, 247 00:13:17,559 --> 00:13:20,559 Speaker 1: but it's probably still liquid. It's not so much pressure 248 00:13:20,600 --> 00:13:23,400 Speaker 1: that it becomes a solid. Layer cake is a good example, 249 00:13:23,440 --> 00:13:26,040 Speaker 1: because the stuff on the bottom gets squeezed by all 250 00:13:26,080 --> 00:13:28,000 Speaker 1: this stuff on the top. So this is a layer 251 00:13:28,040 --> 00:13:30,680 Speaker 1: cake with like a gazillion tons of frosting, so that 252 00:13:30,920 --> 00:13:33,640 Speaker 1: the bottom layer has become like squished. Is no longer 253 00:13:33,679 --> 00:13:36,880 Speaker 1: fluffy at all? Right, it's poll from the British Baking 254 00:13:36,880 --> 00:13:40,679 Speaker 1: Show would say, it's like it's underbaked. But then, how 255 00:13:40,880 --> 00:13:44,160 Speaker 1: how big is that solid core in the middle, Like, 256 00:13:44,320 --> 00:13:46,480 Speaker 1: is it it's still pretty big or is it bigger 257 00:13:46,520 --> 00:13:48,959 Speaker 1: than the Earth? It's a it's a little bit bigger 258 00:13:48,960 --> 00:13:51,520 Speaker 1: than the Earth. It's about the same scale as the Earth. Um. 259 00:13:51,679 --> 00:13:55,000 Speaker 1: The biggest fraction of of Jupiter is definitely that metallic 260 00:13:55,080 --> 00:13:59,559 Speaker 1: hydrogen part. Oh wow, So really at the core Jupiter 261 00:13:59,679 --> 00:14:02,160 Speaker 1: is kind like about the size of Earth. It just 262 00:14:02,200 --> 00:14:06,760 Speaker 1: has a lot of icing on it exactly. Yeah, m 263 00:14:07,080 --> 00:14:10,319 Speaker 1: millions of Earth's worth of icing exactly. That is a 264 00:14:10,440 --> 00:14:16,079 Speaker 1: huge tub of icing, of cosmic galactic icing exactly. But 265 00:14:16,200 --> 00:14:18,800 Speaker 1: the surface, at the very surface that we see, that's 266 00:14:18,840 --> 00:14:21,680 Speaker 1: all clouds. Yeah, And I wouldn't even call it a surface. 267 00:14:21,680 --> 00:14:23,400 Speaker 1: You know, we're seeing the tops of the clouds and 268 00:14:23,400 --> 00:14:25,680 Speaker 1: it's not a surface because you can't like land on it. 269 00:14:25,840 --> 00:14:28,320 Speaker 1: You know, you could descend into it. And we once 270 00:14:28,440 --> 00:14:31,600 Speaker 1: did drop a probe into Jupiter, but it got melted 271 00:14:31,640 --> 00:14:34,160 Speaker 1: and crushed before it even got down through the cloud layer. 272 00:14:34,480 --> 00:14:38,000 Speaker 1: Oh wow, just from the craziness of that. Those clouds. Yeah, 273 00:14:38,080 --> 00:14:41,760 Speaker 1: even just those clouds are very high temperature and pressure. Well, 274 00:14:42,160 --> 00:14:44,760 Speaker 1: but but that cloud layer you're telling me is about 275 00:14:44,800 --> 00:14:48,440 Speaker 1: thirty miles deep, yeah, exactly. So there's a lot of clouds. 276 00:14:48,440 --> 00:14:50,600 Speaker 1: I mean, Jupiter is just massive on this scale. It's 277 00:14:50,640 --> 00:14:52,840 Speaker 1: even hard to imagine, like when you think about planets, 278 00:14:53,280 --> 00:14:57,280 Speaker 1: and so it's it's a huge pile of clouds. There's 279 00:14:57,280 --> 00:14:58,760 Speaker 1: a lot of stuff going on there. And you know, 280 00:14:59,080 --> 00:15:01,160 Speaker 1: when you think about web there, right, whether is something 281 00:15:01,200 --> 00:15:02,920 Speaker 1: that happens in the atmosphere, right, because you have these 282 00:15:02,960 --> 00:15:06,720 Speaker 1: gas moving around, interacting and thirty miles deep of clouds 283 00:15:06,720 --> 00:15:08,760 Speaker 1: means you can have lots and lots of layers. You know, 284 00:15:08,800 --> 00:15:11,480 Speaker 1: here on Earth we have like weather in the upper atmosphere, 285 00:15:11,480 --> 00:15:14,280 Speaker 1: in the lower atmosphere, right, Jupiter has so much more 286 00:15:14,320 --> 00:15:16,840 Speaker 1: atmosphere and clouds than we do that there could be 287 00:15:16,880 --> 00:15:19,680 Speaker 1: complexities there that we've never seen, that we've never imagined. 288 00:15:19,880 --> 00:15:22,200 Speaker 1: And that's one of the fascinating things about studying Jupiter 289 00:15:22,560 --> 00:15:24,480 Speaker 1: is it might give us a clue as to bigger 290 00:15:24,560 --> 00:15:27,320 Speaker 1: questions about whether or what weather might be like on 291 00:15:27,400 --> 00:15:30,560 Speaker 1: exoplanets and other solar systems we hope to one day 292 00:15:30,600 --> 00:15:33,320 Speaker 1: have our children live on. So it's a pretty important 293 00:15:33,320 --> 00:15:35,720 Speaker 1: place to to study how these things work because our 294 00:15:35,720 --> 00:15:38,560 Speaker 1: only experience of weather is here on Earth, and if 295 00:15:38,560 --> 00:15:40,680 Speaker 1: we think about it, we just have this tiny little 296 00:15:40,800 --> 00:15:45,080 Speaker 1: layer of gas too. To understand how all these things 297 00:15:45,240 --> 00:15:48,840 Speaker 1: swirl around and how they get affected by the Sun 298 00:15:48,920 --> 00:15:51,480 Speaker 1: and the Earth spinning rights, it's um. We have a 299 00:15:51,560 --> 00:15:55,280 Speaker 1: very small sample to understand, whether exactly and um. And 300 00:15:55,320 --> 00:15:57,440 Speaker 1: so that's why they send satellites up to study the 301 00:15:57,480 --> 00:16:00,800 Speaker 1: atmosphere Jupiter and the weather inside Jupiter and know even 302 00:16:00,800 --> 00:16:03,440 Speaker 1: the storm aside. Even if Jupiter didn't have the great 303 00:16:03,480 --> 00:16:06,440 Speaker 1: red Spot. It would already be a place of crazy weather. 304 00:16:06,920 --> 00:16:09,400 Speaker 1: Like there are lightning strikes on Jupiter that are more 305 00:16:09,440 --> 00:16:12,880 Speaker 1: than a thousand times larger, like more energetic than lightning 306 00:16:12,920 --> 00:16:15,680 Speaker 1: strikes on Earth. You know, imagine like a thousand lightning 307 00:16:15,720 --> 00:16:19,360 Speaker 1: strikes simultaneously, all in the same place. That's like everyday 308 00:16:19,400 --> 00:16:21,840 Speaker 1: occurrence on Jupiter. You mean, like a like a single 309 00:16:21,920 --> 00:16:25,080 Speaker 1: bolt of lightning, and Jupiter is about a thousand times 310 00:16:25,280 --> 00:16:28,480 Speaker 1: more powerful in a lightning strike on Earth. Yeah, exactly. 311 00:16:28,520 --> 00:16:30,840 Speaker 1: It's like everything on Jupiter is more dramatic. You know, 312 00:16:31,320 --> 00:16:33,800 Speaker 1: I bet birthday parties in Jupiter are much more impressive 313 00:16:33,800 --> 00:16:39,360 Speaker 1: than birthday parties are well apparently Zit's are also very 314 00:16:39,440 --> 00:16:41,480 Speaker 1: much more I bet their jokes are funny, you know, 315 00:16:41,520 --> 00:16:48,000 Speaker 1: they're probably much more jovial. Um. Okay, So so that 316 00:16:48,400 --> 00:16:51,320 Speaker 1: so things are more extreme because it's so so much 317 00:16:51,360 --> 00:16:56,640 Speaker 1: atmosphere so thicker, so much thicker, hotter and crazier. Um. 318 00:16:56,760 --> 00:16:58,920 Speaker 1: And so that's kind of the picture of Jupiter. It's 319 00:16:58,960 --> 00:17:01,440 Speaker 1: like a little tiny rock core about the size of 320 00:17:01,440 --> 00:17:04,480 Speaker 1: our planet. But then you have all of those hydrogen 321 00:17:04,640 --> 00:17:09,679 Speaker 1: swirling around, swishing around. That's mostly what the planet is. 322 00:17:09,760 --> 00:17:13,560 Speaker 1: It's it's like a giant gas container swirling round. Yeah, exactly. 323 00:17:13,640 --> 00:17:16,080 Speaker 1: And and remember that most of the stuff in the 324 00:17:16,080 --> 00:17:18,880 Speaker 1: Solar system is hydrogen, because that's the simplest element. It's 325 00:17:18,920 --> 00:17:20,760 Speaker 1: most of the stuff in the universe for the same 326 00:17:20,800 --> 00:17:22,960 Speaker 1: reason it's just a proton with the electron around it 327 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:25,200 Speaker 1: a right. The Sun is mostly hydrogen for that same 328 00:17:25,240 --> 00:17:28,159 Speaker 1: reasons that Jupiter's mostly hydrogen. It's just most of the 329 00:17:28,200 --> 00:17:31,280 Speaker 1: stuff around. The basic building block was hydrogen, so that's 330 00:17:31,320 --> 00:17:33,960 Speaker 1: why it's hydrogen. And Jupiter is sort of like a 331 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:36,280 Speaker 1: star that never got started burning, which is why I 332 00:17:36,320 --> 00:17:39,160 Speaker 1: can't fuse to make heavier stuff. But the thing that's 333 00:17:39,200 --> 00:17:40,720 Speaker 1: interesting to me is that, you know how we have 334 00:17:40,760 --> 00:17:42,919 Speaker 1: weather patterns on Earth, like we have the jet stream 335 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:45,159 Speaker 1: and you know these various winds that are sort of 336 00:17:45,160 --> 00:17:48,280 Speaker 1: basically stable. The same kind of stuff happens on Jupiter. 337 00:17:48,320 --> 00:17:49,879 Speaker 1: And you can see it with your own eyes. If 338 00:17:49,880 --> 00:17:53,080 Speaker 1: you look at the surface of Jupiter, you see these bands, right, Like, 339 00:17:53,200 --> 00:17:55,280 Speaker 1: Jupiter is not just one big blob. It has these 340 00:17:55,320 --> 00:17:57,919 Speaker 1: bands on it. And these bands are basically just like 341 00:17:58,200 --> 00:18:00,919 Speaker 1: wind patterns, and they go one way or they go 342 00:18:00,960 --> 00:18:03,840 Speaker 1: the other way. There's like these you know, centuries long 343 00:18:03,960 --> 00:18:07,360 Speaker 1: stable weather patterns on the surface of Jupiter. That's really 344 00:18:07,400 --> 00:18:10,439 Speaker 1: pretty fascinating because the whole thing is rotating, right, Like, 345 00:18:10,480 --> 00:18:13,320 Speaker 1: it's not just a ball floating out in space. It's 346 00:18:13,359 --> 00:18:16,240 Speaker 1: spinning as well, isn't it. Yeah, exactly, it's definitely spinning. 347 00:18:16,520 --> 00:18:18,800 Speaker 1: And something we don't know very well. It's like, how 348 00:18:18,800 --> 00:18:21,920 Speaker 1: are the various parts spinning? You know, the atmosphere is spinning, 349 00:18:22,320 --> 00:18:25,479 Speaker 1: the ocean is spinning, the core underneath it is spinning. 350 00:18:25,680 --> 00:18:27,639 Speaker 1: We have a sense for what's in there from various 351 00:18:27,640 --> 00:18:30,080 Speaker 1: gravitational measurements, but we've never gone in there, so it's 352 00:18:30,119 --> 00:18:32,919 Speaker 1: hard to measure like how fast these things are moving. 353 00:18:33,400 --> 00:18:36,080 Speaker 1: We have some clues from like the magnetic field information, 354 00:18:36,560 --> 00:18:38,440 Speaker 1: but so one thing we don't know is how fast 355 00:18:38,440 --> 00:18:41,080 Speaker 1: these things are rotating relative to each other. You know, 356 00:18:41,119 --> 00:18:43,360 Speaker 1: Like we talked once about one of these moons could 357 00:18:43,400 --> 00:18:46,399 Speaker 1: have an outer ice shell that's rotating faster than the 358 00:18:46,440 --> 00:18:49,239 Speaker 1: inner core under the under the ocean. The same thing 359 00:18:49,280 --> 00:18:51,040 Speaker 1: could be happening in Jupiter. So there's a lot we 360 00:18:51,080 --> 00:18:55,679 Speaker 1: don't know about what's going on inside Jupiter. Inside, Like 361 00:18:55,680 --> 00:18:58,560 Speaker 1: if you just measured how the clouds moved on Earth, 362 00:18:58,760 --> 00:19:00,760 Speaker 1: you might get a totally for an idea of how 363 00:19:00,760 --> 00:19:03,760 Speaker 1: the Earth is actually rotating. Yeah, although Earth is not 364 00:19:03,880 --> 00:19:05,679 Speaker 1: covered in clouds the way Jupiter is, so you can 365 00:19:05,680 --> 00:19:07,479 Speaker 1: actually see the surface and you can measure, you can 366 00:19:07,720 --> 00:19:09,440 Speaker 1: spot something on the surface of the Earth and watch 367 00:19:09,520 --> 00:19:11,720 Speaker 1: it go by every twenty four hours. You can't do 368 00:19:11,760 --> 00:19:14,639 Speaker 1: that on Jupiter. You can't see the core of Jupiter 369 00:19:14,760 --> 00:19:17,439 Speaker 1: or this liquid ocean um. Like I said, we dropped 370 00:19:17,440 --> 00:19:19,000 Speaker 1: some probes and but they didn't even make it all 371 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:21,320 Speaker 1: the way down before they got like melted and crushed, 372 00:19:21,359 --> 00:19:24,320 Speaker 1: and like Jupiter just like laughs away are pathetic attempts 373 00:19:24,320 --> 00:19:29,440 Speaker 1: to study it swatted it away like exactly. And so 374 00:19:29,560 --> 00:19:32,240 Speaker 1: the most interesting feature on the surface of Jupiter, of course, 375 00:19:32,440 --> 00:19:35,480 Speaker 1: is this great red spot, right and by now we've 376 00:19:35,480 --> 00:19:38,679 Speaker 1: studied it fairly extensively. You can see it from telescopes 377 00:19:38,720 --> 00:19:41,280 Speaker 1: on Earth, and we've sent this whole series of probes 378 00:19:41,280 --> 00:19:45,760 Speaker 1: that go by Jupiter, Pioneer Voyager, Cassini, New Horizons, Galileo 379 00:19:46,160 --> 00:19:49,640 Speaker 1: and most recently the Juno probe, and they've taken really 380 00:19:49,680 --> 00:19:51,919 Speaker 1: amazing pictures of this. So you can tell that the 381 00:19:51,920 --> 00:19:56,040 Speaker 1: Great Red Spot is basically a huge storm. Wow, let's 382 00:19:56,119 --> 00:19:58,520 Speaker 1: jump right into the eye of the storm. But first 383 00:19:58,600 --> 00:20:13,720 Speaker 1: let's take a quick break. Alright, So Jupiter is just 384 00:20:13,840 --> 00:20:17,160 Speaker 1: a basically a giant ball of hydrogen in all kinds 385 00:20:17,200 --> 00:20:23,400 Speaker 1: of states, solid liquid gas, clouds, and the eye of Jupiter. 386 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:27,560 Speaker 1: You're saying, it's just basically like a storm inside of 387 00:20:27,560 --> 00:20:32,359 Speaker 1: that giant weather ball. Yeah, exactly. It's basically a huge hurricane. 388 00:20:32,760 --> 00:20:35,520 Speaker 1: And you know, on Earth you can have big hurricanes 389 00:20:35,520 --> 00:20:38,680 Speaker 1: that are hundreds of miles wide. That's a pretty amazing event. 390 00:20:38,680 --> 00:20:41,199 Speaker 1: It's pretty rare, and you can get wind speeds up 391 00:20:41,200 --> 00:20:44,399 Speaker 1: to you know, a hundred hundred fifties sometimes in super 392 00:20:44,480 --> 00:20:47,680 Speaker 1: rare events up to like two hundred miles. Well, the 393 00:20:48,680 --> 00:20:51,760 Speaker 1: Great Red Spot has winds that go up to four 394 00:20:51,840 --> 00:20:55,399 Speaker 1: hundred miles per hour. And it's been going on for 395 00:20:55,640 --> 00:20:58,240 Speaker 1: you know, we don't know exactly how long, but much 396 00:20:58,280 --> 00:21:01,520 Speaker 1: more than a hundred years. Wait, you mean it hasn't 397 00:21:01,560 --> 00:21:04,159 Speaker 1: always been there, Like there was a time when you 398 00:21:04,200 --> 00:21:06,880 Speaker 1: could look at Jupiter and you wouldn't see a red spot. Well, 399 00:21:06,880 --> 00:21:10,919 Speaker 1: this is actually fascinating because we don't really have reliable information. 400 00:21:11,400 --> 00:21:14,480 Speaker 1: The earliest solid observation of the Great Red Spot in 401 00:21:14,560 --> 00:21:18,200 Speaker 1: Jupiter comes from like the eighteen thirties. Before that, there 402 00:21:18,200 --> 00:21:20,680 Speaker 1: are some folks Galileo and those guys who wrote about 403 00:21:20,760 --> 00:21:23,040 Speaker 1: Jupiter and said, oh, I see a spot on Jupiter. 404 00:21:24,040 --> 00:21:27,320 Speaker 1: But they weren't like really very detailed observations. They didn't 405 00:21:27,359 --> 00:21:29,399 Speaker 1: like tell us exactly what they saw and measured it 406 00:21:29,400 --> 00:21:31,679 Speaker 1: in stuff. And there's some hints in those writings that 407 00:21:31,720 --> 00:21:34,239 Speaker 1: suggests they might have seen a different spot, like on 408 00:21:34,280 --> 00:21:37,640 Speaker 1: the northern side of Jupiter. So it might be that 409 00:21:37,680 --> 00:21:40,400 Speaker 1: the Jupiter's red spot is like a couple hundred years old, 410 00:21:40,880 --> 00:21:42,680 Speaker 1: or it could be that it's been there for thousands 411 00:21:42,720 --> 00:21:45,399 Speaker 1: of years. We just don't have like a lot of data, 412 00:21:45,800 --> 00:21:48,639 Speaker 1: right Is it a birthmark or is it something that 413 00:21:49,200 --> 00:21:52,199 Speaker 1: happened in purity? You know, like it could be that 414 00:21:52,240 --> 00:21:54,679 Speaker 1: we go back to talk to Galileo or folks like 415 00:21:54,720 --> 00:21:57,600 Speaker 1: that and they don't even have this question because they've 416 00:21:57,640 --> 00:21:59,520 Speaker 1: never seen the Great Red Spot in Jupiter and they're like, 417 00:21:59,560 --> 00:22:01,560 Speaker 1: what do you talking about? Or it could be that 418 00:22:01,600 --> 00:22:03,640 Speaker 1: this has been around for our thousands of years and 419 00:22:03,640 --> 00:22:05,520 Speaker 1: and you know, it's a big question in their minds 420 00:22:05,520 --> 00:22:07,680 Speaker 1: as well. So it's it's sort of cool that we 421 00:22:07,720 --> 00:22:09,320 Speaker 1: don't know if this is like a transient thing that 422 00:22:09,400 --> 00:22:11,840 Speaker 1: exists only in these few decades and hundreds of years 423 00:22:11,840 --> 00:22:14,600 Speaker 1: that we're looking at Jupiter, or if it's a prominent feature. 424 00:22:15,280 --> 00:22:16,840 Speaker 1: That's a cool thing about thinking about that sort of 425 00:22:16,840 --> 00:22:19,080 Speaker 1: time scales of the Solar system, you know, like in 426 00:22:19,080 --> 00:22:22,560 Speaker 1: a million years, will Saturn still have rings? Will Jupiter 427 00:22:22,760 --> 00:22:25,520 Speaker 1: be identifiable? You know, this kind of thing. But that's 428 00:22:25,520 --> 00:22:28,400 Speaker 1: like their signature move, you know, that's like there, it's 429 00:22:28,400 --> 00:22:31,639 Speaker 1: in their logo, you know exactly. Well, if you're like 430 00:22:31,640 --> 00:22:33,439 Speaker 1: a teenager who had a lot of acne, that might 431 00:22:33,480 --> 00:22:35,280 Speaker 1: have been your signature, but then you kind of want 432 00:22:35,280 --> 00:22:37,399 Speaker 1: to grow out of it and you don't want to 433 00:22:37,440 --> 00:22:39,720 Speaker 1: be called like, hey remember you, I remember you. You 434 00:22:39,760 --> 00:22:41,600 Speaker 1: were that kid who had all that acne, right, you 435 00:22:41,600 --> 00:22:43,960 Speaker 1: want to leave it behind. So maybe Jupiter feels the 436 00:22:43,960 --> 00:22:47,560 Speaker 1: same way. Mm hmm. Well, I think it's it's interesting 437 00:22:47,600 --> 00:22:49,359 Speaker 1: to me that it's you call it a storm. It's 438 00:22:49,400 --> 00:22:52,600 Speaker 1: a storm because the whole planet is basically just a 439 00:22:52,680 --> 00:22:56,560 Speaker 1: giant cloud weather system. What makes it sort of a contain? 440 00:22:57,000 --> 00:22:59,560 Speaker 1: What makes something a storm in a planet where basically 441 00:22:59,560 --> 00:23:02,680 Speaker 1: the whole thing is kind of a storm? This description 442 00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:05,679 Speaker 1: hasn't made you want to like vacation to Jupiter or something. 443 00:23:06,600 --> 00:23:10,119 Speaker 1: There's no calm days on Jupiters. Yeah, that's a great question. 444 00:23:10,240 --> 00:23:12,320 Speaker 1: I think that the thing that makes it a storm 445 00:23:12,520 --> 00:23:14,800 Speaker 1: is that it's separate from the rest of the cloud system. 446 00:23:14,800 --> 00:23:17,719 Speaker 1: It's like self contained. Um, it eats. First of all, 447 00:23:17,760 --> 00:23:21,720 Speaker 1: it eats other storms. We've seen like smaller peony size storms, 448 00:23:21,920 --> 00:23:24,840 Speaker 1: storms like the size of huge hurricanes and Earth. They 449 00:23:25,440 --> 00:23:29,760 Speaker 1: this storm just like rolls over them and gobbles them up. What. Yeah, 450 00:23:30,200 --> 00:23:33,520 Speaker 1: systems got its own energy. Is that what it means 451 00:23:33,520 --> 00:23:36,520 Speaker 1: like it has its own kind of like you know, 452 00:23:36,680 --> 00:23:41,679 Speaker 1: perpetual kind of machine cycle something going on. It's kind 453 00:23:41,680 --> 00:23:43,080 Speaker 1: of like a bully. I don't know. It just like 454 00:23:43,119 --> 00:23:47,400 Speaker 1: sucks up the lunch money from other storms, right, And um, yeah, 455 00:23:47,400 --> 00:23:50,560 Speaker 1: so it eats other storms. It's self contained and it's separate. 456 00:23:50,560 --> 00:23:52,440 Speaker 1: There's a boundary there, right. You can see that. You 457 00:23:52,480 --> 00:23:55,119 Speaker 1: see these pictures from Juno. They're incredible, and there's the 458 00:23:55,960 --> 00:23:58,520 Speaker 1: winds that are circling and there's an edge to it, 459 00:23:58,600 --> 00:24:01,520 Speaker 1: after which you get these cloud bands and they're definitely different. 460 00:24:01,560 --> 00:24:03,800 Speaker 1: So it's it's separate from the rest of Jupiter. And 461 00:24:03,840 --> 00:24:06,000 Speaker 1: I would say that the the other thing that makes 462 00:24:06,040 --> 00:24:07,960 Speaker 1: it a storm is that the winds are faster like 463 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:10,960 Speaker 1: they go. The winds they're four miles per hour, are 464 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:12,959 Speaker 1: definitely faster than they are on the rest of Jupiter. 465 00:24:13,359 --> 00:24:15,760 Speaker 1: So it's the stormiest spot on Jupiter. If you were 466 00:24:15,760 --> 00:24:18,360 Speaker 1: going to vacation a Jupiter, I wouldn't recommend the Great 467 00:24:18,400 --> 00:24:23,600 Speaker 1: Red Spot unless you like like that kind of thing. Exactly, 468 00:24:23,680 --> 00:24:26,640 Speaker 1: windsurfing maybe, yeah, I don't know if you're super good 469 00:24:27,200 --> 00:24:33,120 Speaker 1: ultimate windsurfing, yeah, exactly. And um, you were asking earlier 470 00:24:33,119 --> 00:24:36,640 Speaker 1: about like is it connected to something underneath, And that's 471 00:24:36,640 --> 00:24:39,240 Speaker 1: a really good question. We don't don't know the answer. Um, 472 00:24:39,440 --> 00:24:42,239 Speaker 1: we've probed it a little bit using various techniques, and 473 00:24:42,240 --> 00:24:44,720 Speaker 1: we know that it goes like a hundred hundred fifty 474 00:24:44,720 --> 00:24:48,080 Speaker 1: miles down, so definitely penetrates down all the way through 475 00:24:48,119 --> 00:24:50,879 Speaker 1: the cloud layer and into the like the blob of 476 00:24:50,920 --> 00:24:53,760 Speaker 1: gashous hydrogen. But we don't know if it's connected to 477 00:24:53,840 --> 00:24:56,639 Speaker 1: something else going on, Like is it an indication that 478 00:24:56,680 --> 00:25:00,960 Speaker 1: there's some like tectonic activity inside Jupiter that's venting out 479 00:25:01,040 --> 00:25:03,760 Speaker 1: some heat that's fueling this thing, or is it just 480 00:25:03,800 --> 00:25:07,160 Speaker 1: a crazy weather pattern that happens to support itself. Like 481 00:25:07,440 --> 00:25:11,040 Speaker 1: the ideas are pretty broad still, which really still pretty clueless. 482 00:25:11,280 --> 00:25:14,679 Speaker 1: So it could be just something that floats basically, or 483 00:25:14,880 --> 00:25:17,520 Speaker 1: it could be something that is kind of connected to 484 00:25:17,560 --> 00:25:21,439 Speaker 1: the rocky center of Jupiter. Yeah, exactly the way like 485 00:25:21,520 --> 00:25:24,880 Speaker 1: storms on Earth, right, they get their energy usually from 486 00:25:25,040 --> 00:25:28,000 Speaker 1: the ocean, right, there's water and the heat from the ocean. 487 00:25:28,160 --> 00:25:30,960 Speaker 1: And that's why, for example, global warming makes on average 488 00:25:31,119 --> 00:25:34,640 Speaker 1: larger hurricanes because warmer water fuels these storms, and then 489 00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:36,880 Speaker 1: the storms sort of peter out when they run into 490 00:25:36,960 --> 00:25:39,760 Speaker 1: land because they can no longer get fuel because they're 491 00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:43,119 Speaker 1: they're not over the ocean anymore. Um, I see, you don't, like, 492 00:25:43,160 --> 00:25:46,280 Speaker 1: you don't get hurricanes in the middle of Africa or 493 00:25:46,359 --> 00:25:48,160 Speaker 1: through the middle of the US. You only get them 494 00:25:48,200 --> 00:25:51,399 Speaker 1: sort of in the you know, the the Caribbean or 495 00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:54,399 Speaker 1: in the middle of the Atlantic, right, that's right, And 496 00:25:54,440 --> 00:25:57,200 Speaker 1: that's why they tend to lose power when they hit land, right, 497 00:25:57,400 --> 00:26:02,040 Speaker 1: their most ferocious just when they hit the the the beaches, 498 00:26:02,320 --> 00:26:04,159 Speaker 1: and then they sort of peter out as they go 499 00:26:04,240 --> 00:26:07,080 Speaker 1: further and further inland. Um, thank gosh. But you know, 500 00:26:07,119 --> 00:26:09,240 Speaker 1: we don't know. Maybe in the future with climate change, 501 00:26:09,560 --> 00:26:11,800 Speaker 1: hurricanes are just going to rule the world. We don't know. 502 00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:15,880 Speaker 1: But there's no surface like that to slow down storms 503 00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:18,080 Speaker 1: on Jupiter. So we don't know what's fueling it. Is 504 00:26:18,119 --> 00:26:21,520 Speaker 1: there some like hot spot in the liquid ocean, liquid 505 00:26:21,600 --> 00:26:24,359 Speaker 1: hydrogen ocean that's connected to something We don't know if 506 00:26:24,359 --> 00:26:26,879 Speaker 1: it's just floating there. Yeah, it's a great question, But 507 00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:29,399 Speaker 1: what do you mean what fuels it? It needs energy 508 00:26:29,440 --> 00:26:31,760 Speaker 1: to keep going, and you're saying, we don't know where 509 00:26:31,760 --> 00:26:34,639 Speaker 1: that energy is coming from. Yeah, exactly. They've done some 510 00:26:34,680 --> 00:26:36,840 Speaker 1: thermal imaging, so they know that the center of it 511 00:26:36,880 --> 00:26:39,159 Speaker 1: seems to be warmer than the rest of it, But 512 00:26:39,200 --> 00:26:42,040 Speaker 1: they don't know if that's just some warm spot on Jupiter, 513 00:26:42,480 --> 00:26:45,080 Speaker 1: or if that's coming from underneath, right, if it's like 514 00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:48,520 Speaker 1: drawing energy from inside Jupiter, or maybe there's some like 515 00:26:48,760 --> 00:26:52,040 Speaker 1: alien civilization there that's pumping out some heat signature from 516 00:26:52,040 --> 00:26:55,040 Speaker 1: its fusion reactor. I mean, that's crazy speculation. But I'm 517 00:26:55,080 --> 00:26:58,760 Speaker 1: sure somebody has written that science fiction novel. I was 518 00:26:58,800 --> 00:27:00,919 Speaker 1: thinking that would make a cool title for about the 519 00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:05,280 Speaker 1: Eye of Jupiter. I'm sure I'm sure somebody has written 520 00:27:05,280 --> 00:27:10,240 Speaker 1: that book already. Oh oh man, sorry, every book you 521 00:27:10,320 --> 00:27:12,840 Speaker 1: we imagine somebody has ever written. You know, one time 522 00:27:12,840 --> 00:27:14,520 Speaker 1: in this podcast, I had an idea for a science 523 00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:16,680 Speaker 1: fiction story, and I speculated about it, and then somebody 524 00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:18,640 Speaker 1: send me an email saying, oh, that story has been written. 525 00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:21,160 Speaker 1: Here it is. So I'm pretty sure we're not coming 526 00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:23,320 Speaker 1: up with any new ideas on this podcast for science 527 00:27:23,320 --> 00:27:25,680 Speaker 1: fiction stories. That story has been written. I just wrote 528 00:27:25,760 --> 00:27:30,919 Speaker 1: it after I your podcast there is, and I'm suing you. 529 00:27:31,040 --> 00:27:33,680 Speaker 1: We're talking about it without giving me credit. I think 530 00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:35,399 Speaker 1: I think that means we've made it. Daniel. We have 531 00:27:35,480 --> 00:27:41,040 Speaker 1: fan fiction, now, that's right, Jorge versus the Banana. I'm 532 00:27:41,040 --> 00:27:49,600 Speaker 1: gonna read that fan fiction somebody out there right that story. Yeah. 533 00:27:49,640 --> 00:27:52,080 Speaker 1: So I think it's amazing that we just don't know, 534 00:27:52,240 --> 00:27:54,679 Speaker 1: like what caused this, you know, is this something that 535 00:27:54,760 --> 00:27:57,680 Speaker 1: was created by some crazy event? You know, like did 536 00:27:57,720 --> 00:28:00,119 Speaker 1: something hit Jupiter and impact a bunch of energy and 537 00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:03,720 Speaker 1: cause the storm, because you know, we've seen stuff hit Jupiter, right, 538 00:28:04,119 --> 00:28:07,280 Speaker 1: like back in the nineties, huge comet broke up and 539 00:28:07,359 --> 00:28:10,080 Speaker 1: hit Jupiter and it left some some spots on the 540 00:28:10,119 --> 00:28:12,160 Speaker 1: surface of Jupiter, but they didn't last, right, Those are 541 00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:17,440 Speaker 1: gone by now, right, But this is like a self contained, ongoing, 542 00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:22,360 Speaker 1: almost independent phenomenon that's happening on the on the big 543 00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:25,160 Speaker 1: clouds of Jupiter, right, yeah, exactly, And we know it's 544 00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:27,480 Speaker 1: been around for at least a hundred and fifty years. 545 00:28:27,880 --> 00:28:30,800 Speaker 1: But but it's not static, right, it's not unchanging. We've 546 00:28:30,840 --> 00:28:33,159 Speaker 1: been watching it now pretty carefully for a few decades, 547 00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:35,480 Speaker 1: and we see it changing. The weird thing is it 548 00:28:35,560 --> 00:28:38,600 Speaker 1: seems to be shrinking and it's going from like more 549 00:28:38,640 --> 00:28:41,440 Speaker 1: oval to more circular. That kind of blew my mind 550 00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:44,120 Speaker 1: here that it's it's not a permanent feature of Jupiter. 551 00:28:44,240 --> 00:28:47,320 Speaker 1: It might be like a transient, temporary thing that just 552 00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:49,120 Speaker 1: pops in and out. Yeah, it could be that you 553 00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:52,480 Speaker 1: tell your kids about this eye on Jupiter and they're like, whatever, Dad, 554 00:28:52,520 --> 00:28:55,240 Speaker 1: that's our crazy story. Jupiter doesn't have an eye on it, 555 00:28:55,840 --> 00:28:59,960 Speaker 1: you know whatever. We know it was aliens a few 556 00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:04,840 Speaker 1: or Daniel told us, I have a lot of questions 557 00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:07,720 Speaker 1: for future Daniel, Um, yeah, I got some numbers here. 558 00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:10,240 Speaker 1: Back in nineteen seventy nine, we measured it to be 559 00:29:10,280 --> 00:29:14,720 Speaker 1: about fifteen and a half thousand miles wide, and now 560 00:29:14,760 --> 00:29:19,000 Speaker 1: it's just under eight thousand miles wide. And yeah, so 561 00:29:19,040 --> 00:29:21,240 Speaker 1: it's it's a lot smaller than it used to be, 562 00:29:21,320 --> 00:29:24,200 Speaker 1: Like your Grandpa's great red spot. It's much more impressive 563 00:29:24,360 --> 00:29:27,200 Speaker 1: than yours. And that's not just your grandpa talking. That's real, Like, 564 00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:36,160 Speaker 1: that's data hit my days was much bigger than you guys. Yeah, 565 00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:38,360 Speaker 1: it's gonna be downgraded from the great Red Spot to 566 00:29:38,400 --> 00:29:41,400 Speaker 1: the pretty big red spot down to the red spot. 567 00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:45,600 Speaker 1: Maybe it's just very slowly blinking, you know, I was 568 00:29:45,600 --> 00:29:48,760 Speaker 1: thinking that also, it is shrinking. That doesn't mean necessarily 569 00:29:48,840 --> 00:29:51,000 Speaker 1: it's going to disappear. It could go down and then 570 00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:53,000 Speaker 1: it could come back up. Right, we have no idea 571 00:29:53,080 --> 00:29:55,280 Speaker 1: what's causing this thing, what the dynamics are, what the 572 00:29:55,360 --> 00:29:59,840 Speaker 1: mechanism is, so we can't really predict anything about it, right, Um, 573 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:03,040 Speaker 1: And it's not like it's moving steadily. It was shrinking steadily, 574 00:30:03,080 --> 00:30:08,120 Speaker 1: but then between its shrunk really dramatically for a while. 575 00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:10,800 Speaker 1: We have no idea what happened there. Let's see what 576 00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:19,000 Speaker 1: happened in Um, Barack Obama got reelected. Thanks Obama. It's 577 00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:24,000 Speaker 1: a direct correlation here, exactly, A bunch of terrible movies 578 00:30:24,080 --> 00:30:27,800 Speaker 1: came out. Yeah, that's probably a yeah. All right, Well 579 00:30:27,880 --> 00:30:30,480 Speaker 1: let's get into the biggest question about the big Red Spot. 580 00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:45,360 Speaker 1: But first let's take a quick great all right, Dianiel, 581 00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:47,760 Speaker 1: here's the biggest question I have about the big red 582 00:30:47,800 --> 00:30:52,600 Speaker 1: spot in Jupiter, which is why is it red? I know, 583 00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:55,600 Speaker 1: I wish I knew the answer that question. Um, nobody 584 00:30:55,640 --> 00:30:58,239 Speaker 1: knows is the short answer. Right. We still don't know 585 00:30:58,320 --> 00:31:01,240 Speaker 1: what makes it red. And it's like a tiny bit red. 586 00:31:01,240 --> 00:31:03,120 Speaker 1: And this is not one of those things that astronomers 587 00:31:03,120 --> 00:31:05,320 Speaker 1: are like exaggerating and you check it out for yourself 588 00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:08,200 Speaker 1: and you're like, what, that's not too impressive. It's really 589 00:31:08,240 --> 00:31:11,760 Speaker 1: red because the rest of the planet is like paige brown, 590 00:31:12,320 --> 00:31:15,280 Speaker 1: pretty boring cold colors. I mean, you are so critical 591 00:31:15,280 --> 00:31:19,360 Speaker 1: of the aesthetics of Jupiter, man, come on, jupiters beautiful Jupiter. 592 00:31:19,440 --> 00:31:23,360 Speaker 1: I love you. I think I'm I'm praising its bold 593 00:31:23,400 --> 00:31:26,200 Speaker 1: choice of this red because you know, it's like, you know, 594 00:31:26,240 --> 00:31:28,760 Speaker 1: it painted the walls paige, but then it painted a 595 00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:30,840 Speaker 1: giant red thought in the middle of the of the 596 00:31:30,880 --> 00:31:33,320 Speaker 1: living room. Yeah, we don't know what makes it red. 597 00:31:33,440 --> 00:31:36,360 Speaker 1: It's fascinating, right, and it seems like it might not 598 00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:38,680 Speaker 1: be that hard to figure out. So scientists like said, oh, 599 00:31:38,720 --> 00:31:41,880 Speaker 1: maybe it's ammonium hyde sulfate, or it's this other chemical 600 00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:44,240 Speaker 1: or sad chemical, and so they try to reproduce it, 601 00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:48,120 Speaker 1: like reproduce the conditions of Jupiter in the lab and 602 00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:50,360 Speaker 1: see if they can make it glow red the same way, 603 00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:53,959 Speaker 1: but they couldn't. Some of the current ideas are like 604 00:31:54,080 --> 00:31:57,720 Speaker 1: cosmic rays or coming down and radiating it and making 605 00:31:57,760 --> 00:32:00,800 Speaker 1: it glow red, but people have tried that in the 606 00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:02,880 Speaker 1: lab also, and they just can't get it to glow 607 00:32:02,960 --> 00:32:05,239 Speaker 1: the right color of red. I feel like you just 608 00:32:05,280 --> 00:32:08,080 Speaker 1: took it up a notch in the mystery scale. Not 609 00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:10,400 Speaker 1: only do we know not know what is the j 610 00:32:10,720 --> 00:32:12,720 Speaker 1: what is Jupiter's red spot? We we don't even know 611 00:32:12,760 --> 00:32:16,600 Speaker 1: why it's red. Might not even be red. It's definitely red, 612 00:32:17,320 --> 00:32:19,720 Speaker 1: but yeah, why is it red? Not like purple or 613 00:32:19,760 --> 00:32:22,400 Speaker 1: blue or orange or something? Right? What's going on? It's 614 00:32:22,560 --> 00:32:25,040 Speaker 1: and the redness is so tantalizing because you know, red 615 00:32:25,040 --> 00:32:27,920 Speaker 1: really catches your eye. So it's not like it's a 616 00:32:27,920 --> 00:32:30,200 Speaker 1: beige spot on top of a white planet or something. 617 00:32:30,280 --> 00:32:33,480 Speaker 1: We just don't understand it. It's so bright and dramatic, right, 618 00:32:33,560 --> 00:32:36,400 Speaker 1: this this is a very very red spot. And so 619 00:32:36,560 --> 00:32:38,880 Speaker 1: something is going on there, and it's of interest to 620 00:32:39,040 --> 00:32:42,360 Speaker 1: you know, atmospheric physicists and scientists and weather scientists and 621 00:32:42,360 --> 00:32:44,800 Speaker 1: that kind of stuff because it gives us a clue. 622 00:32:44,800 --> 00:32:47,040 Speaker 1: It's like how these strooms form and what's going on 623 00:32:47,120 --> 00:32:49,720 Speaker 1: inside them. It seems like a really big clue. And 624 00:32:49,760 --> 00:32:52,440 Speaker 1: I know, Daniel that you can't resist a big red button. 625 00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:55,800 Speaker 1: If you see one, does this should have cantalize you 626 00:32:55,840 --> 00:32:57,600 Speaker 1: and makes you want to go to Jupiter and press 627 00:32:57,640 --> 00:32:59,840 Speaker 1: that big red button. I do want to go to 628 00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:01,920 Speaker 1: but yes, I would love to go visit the great 629 00:33:01,920 --> 00:33:03,880 Speaker 1: Red Spot. Thank you very much for offering to fund 630 00:33:03,960 --> 00:33:07,280 Speaker 1: my travel. I appreciate that. Quite a quiet invitation. There 631 00:33:07,920 --> 00:33:09,840 Speaker 1: she's going, I'll send you the check when you get there. 632 00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:12,120 Speaker 1: Just find charge you to um I Heart Media. I 633 00:33:12,160 --> 00:33:17,720 Speaker 1: think they're funding this operation. They like eyes, so they 634 00:33:16,840 --> 00:33:21,240 Speaker 1: know that's right. There's Jovian trip to the eye of Jupiter, 635 00:33:21,320 --> 00:33:28,880 Speaker 1: brought to you by I Heart Media. I would definitely 636 00:33:28,880 --> 00:33:30,920 Speaker 1: go and love to see it. And yet red attracts me. 637 00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:32,360 Speaker 1: You know. I sit in the control room of the 638 00:33:32,440 --> 00:33:35,200 Speaker 1: large head drunk collider with that big red cancel the 639 00:33:35,240 --> 00:33:38,200 Speaker 1: collider button, and yes I want to press it, and 640 00:33:38,360 --> 00:33:41,240 Speaker 1: I tempted to press it, and so in the same way, 641 00:33:41,240 --> 00:33:43,160 Speaker 1: I want to go see what's going on. It seems 642 00:33:43,200 --> 00:33:45,640 Speaker 1: like it's calling to us. Obviously, it's not maybe not 643 00:33:45,720 --> 00:33:48,240 Speaker 1: so obviously, but it seems like it's calling to us. 644 00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:51,240 Speaker 1: And I think it's fun that scientists want to figure 645 00:33:51,280 --> 00:33:53,440 Speaker 1: this out and that they can't. And uh, you know, 646 00:33:53,480 --> 00:33:56,200 Speaker 1: it's not just curiosity. We're going to be looking at 647 00:33:56,240 --> 00:33:58,920 Speaker 1: the atmospheres of lots of other planets. Pretty soon. We 648 00:33:58,960 --> 00:34:02,560 Speaker 1: have these amazing lescopes now, like tests and other telescopes 649 00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:05,400 Speaker 1: coming online that that will be able to image the 650 00:34:05,480 --> 00:34:10,360 Speaker 1: atmospheres of exo planets. That means taking pictures of planets 651 00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:13,480 Speaker 1: and other solar systems. And then we're gonna have questions. 652 00:34:13,520 --> 00:34:16,400 Speaker 1: We're gonna be like, what's going on there? Can we live? There? 653 00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:20,319 Speaker 1: Is there water in that atmosphere? You know? And the 654 00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:22,000 Speaker 1: best way to figure out how to do that is 655 00:34:22,040 --> 00:34:25,239 Speaker 1: to practice by looking at the stuff nearby. It's kind 656 00:34:25,239 --> 00:34:27,719 Speaker 1: of like those weather cams you know, where you they 657 00:34:27,760 --> 00:34:29,840 Speaker 1: show you what the weather's like in Palm Beach or 658 00:34:29,920 --> 00:34:31,840 Speaker 1: Santa Barbara or on the top of the mountain right 659 00:34:31,880 --> 00:34:33,400 Speaker 1: and you can see how which snow there is or 660 00:34:33,760 --> 00:34:35,960 Speaker 1: whether it's cloudy. You could be like, hey, that planet 661 00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:38,960 Speaker 1: looks pretty good, let's go over there exactly. And it's 662 00:34:38,960 --> 00:34:40,800 Speaker 1: the kind of thing you want to get right, because 663 00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:42,799 Speaker 1: you don't want to fly all the way over there, 664 00:34:42,880 --> 00:34:46,640 Speaker 1: spend twenty years and be like, oh whoops, turns out 665 00:34:46,680 --> 00:34:49,360 Speaker 1: there's a huge storm and not a nice beach planet. 666 00:34:49,960 --> 00:34:51,920 Speaker 1: So you definitely want to get this kind of thing right. 667 00:34:51,960 --> 00:34:54,640 Speaker 1: We want to understand weather systems on other planets. That 668 00:34:54,640 --> 00:34:57,200 Speaker 1: would be very helpful. What is it called exo weather 669 00:34:57,480 --> 00:35:05,040 Speaker 1: or astro weather, astro meteora gene maybe asterolog climatology after climatology. 670 00:35:05,080 --> 00:35:07,960 Speaker 1: I love that, yeah, exactly. And you know, as the 671 00:35:08,040 --> 00:35:11,759 Speaker 1: Earth heats up and our weather gets more and more extreme, um, 672 00:35:12,080 --> 00:35:14,040 Speaker 1: it may be helpful to see what weather patterns are 673 00:35:14,080 --> 00:35:17,359 Speaker 1: like on other planets as as our weather gets more 674 00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:21,359 Speaker 1: and more like there. Yeah, if we if we eat 675 00:35:21,400 --> 00:35:24,239 Speaker 1: the wrong things, we could get a big giant's in Also, 676 00:35:24,920 --> 00:35:28,560 Speaker 1: that's right here again you're blaming Jupiter's choices. See, you're 677 00:35:28,640 --> 00:35:31,680 Speaker 1: very judgmental about Jupiter in this podcast. All right, Jupiter, 678 00:35:31,880 --> 00:35:34,240 Speaker 1: we love you the way you are. You make your choices, 679 00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:37,040 Speaker 1: you know, that's fine. Um. I think Jupiter should be 680 00:35:37,160 --> 00:35:40,879 Speaker 1: very planet positive about itself, even though it is big 681 00:35:40,960 --> 00:35:46,000 Speaker 1: and round. Because it's round there there really aren't. You 682 00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:48,120 Speaker 1: don't want to be a slender planet. Now, that's for sure. 683 00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:52,000 Speaker 1: It does have a lot of gas, that's true. Um, 684 00:35:52,360 --> 00:35:53,920 Speaker 1: it wouldn't it be awesome if Jupiter was like a 685 00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:57,000 Speaker 1: second eye, and then that would really be wet. It's 686 00:35:57,040 --> 00:35:59,840 Speaker 1: like it's looking at us and that you're saying that 687 00:36:00,160 --> 00:36:03,200 Speaker 1: that's the amazing thing. It could happen because we don't 688 00:36:03,239 --> 00:36:04,759 Speaker 1: know what caused the first one, so it could just 689 00:36:04,920 --> 00:36:07,680 Speaker 1: generate generate a second eye. Yeah, and that kind of 690 00:36:07,719 --> 00:36:09,600 Speaker 1: thing does happen, like not on the scale of the 691 00:36:09,640 --> 00:36:12,239 Speaker 1: Great Red Spot, but recently there was a sort of 692 00:36:12,280 --> 00:36:14,680 Speaker 1: a smaller white spot that formed on the top side 693 00:36:14,719 --> 00:36:17,480 Speaker 1: of the planet and it lasted several years and then dissipated. 694 00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:19,960 Speaker 1: And so we don't know if like they just have 695 00:36:20,120 --> 00:36:22,040 Speaker 1: to have to get big enough and then they're stable, 696 00:36:22,520 --> 00:36:25,560 Speaker 1: or if there's something fueling it underneath. We really don't know. 697 00:36:25,960 --> 00:36:28,640 Speaker 1: I would love to watch Jupiter and sort of time 698 00:36:28,760 --> 00:36:31,799 Speaker 1: lapse footage over like a million years, right, to see 699 00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:34,839 Speaker 1: how these things evolve, because remember, we have to think 700 00:36:34,880 --> 00:36:38,040 Speaker 1: about these things on longer time scales. Right, what we're 701 00:36:38,080 --> 00:36:40,960 Speaker 1: looking at is like a slow motion video of gas 702 00:36:41,040 --> 00:36:44,920 Speaker 1: bouncing around um of swirling, swirling vapors, you know, on 703 00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:47,520 Speaker 1: the longer time scales, this could just be a blip, 704 00:36:47,719 --> 00:36:50,080 Speaker 1: or it could be something that's going to eventually grow 705 00:36:50,200 --> 00:36:53,359 Speaker 1: and take over Jupiter. Right, it could have had more 706 00:36:53,440 --> 00:36:55,719 Speaker 1: eyes in the past, right, Yeah, exactly, it could have 707 00:36:55,760 --> 00:36:58,560 Speaker 1: had more eyes as far as we know. Well, it's 708 00:36:58,560 --> 00:37:01,640 Speaker 1: pretty cool to think about the the idea that we 709 00:37:01,800 --> 00:37:06,560 Speaker 1: have all these mysteries right here in our backyard that 710 00:37:06,719 --> 00:37:09,200 Speaker 1: we have no idea about and that we may never 711 00:37:09,280 --> 00:37:11,160 Speaker 1: know and I mean that I could disappear before we 712 00:37:11,360 --> 00:37:14,680 Speaker 1: get the answer exactly. Our solar system is so full 713 00:37:14,760 --> 00:37:17,560 Speaker 1: of fascinating mysteries. You know, we're tempted to look out 714 00:37:17,640 --> 00:37:19,880 Speaker 1: on the grander scale and think about the history the 715 00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:22,680 Speaker 1: universe and how big is it? And is it accelerating? 716 00:37:22,680 --> 00:37:24,440 Speaker 1: And what is dark energy and all that stuff, But 717 00:37:24,560 --> 00:37:26,960 Speaker 1: we have a lot of mysteries in our backyard. You know, 718 00:37:27,760 --> 00:37:30,800 Speaker 1: why does Mars not have a magnetic field? Why is 719 00:37:30,880 --> 00:37:34,480 Speaker 1: Jupiter so crazy? Right? What happened in Neptune? What's going 720 00:37:34,520 --> 00:37:36,520 Speaker 1: on in the moons of Jupiter? Like, there's so many 721 00:37:36,600 --> 00:37:38,840 Speaker 1: things right here that we don't know the answers to, 722 00:37:39,239 --> 00:37:42,080 Speaker 1: And those questions are more fascinating because we're much more 723 00:37:42,200 --> 00:37:44,080 Speaker 1: likely to figure them out. You know, we can go 724 00:37:44,280 --> 00:37:46,560 Speaker 1: visit Jupiter. It's not that big a deal. We can 725 00:37:46,760 --> 00:37:50,080 Speaker 1: send probes to land on these these moons. Eventually we 726 00:37:50,120 --> 00:37:53,400 Speaker 1: can go visit the Great Red Spot. Like these questions, 727 00:37:53,480 --> 00:37:55,520 Speaker 1: we probably will get answers to, and that makes the 728 00:37:55,600 --> 00:37:59,200 Speaker 1: questions themselves to me much more exciting. Yeah, better go 729 00:37:59,360 --> 00:38:03,960 Speaker 1: before blink. That's right, before before somebody pops that ZiT. 730 00:38:07,480 --> 00:38:09,399 Speaker 1: All right, Well, thank you for joining us. That's been 731 00:38:09,480 --> 00:38:12,640 Speaker 1: our podcast for today. Thanks for listening, See you next time. 732 00:38:21,160 --> 00:38:23,480 Speaker 1: If you still have a question after listening to all 733 00:38:23,520 --> 00:38:26,719 Speaker 1: these explanations, please drop us a line. We'd love to 734 00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:29,160 Speaker 1: hear from you. You can find us at Facebook, Twitter, 735 00:38:29,280 --> 00:38:32,920 Speaker 1: and Instagram at Daniel and Jorge That's one word, or 736 00:38:33,080 --> 00:38:36,439 Speaker 1: email us at Feedback at Daniel and Jorge dot com. 737 00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:39,840 Speaker 1: Thanks for listening, and remember that Daniel and Jorge Explain 738 00:38:39,880 --> 00:38:42,759 Speaker 1: the Universe is a production of I Heart Radio. For 739 00:38:42,920 --> 00:38:45,839 Speaker 1: more podcast from my Heart Radio, visit the I Heart 740 00:38:45,920 --> 00:38:49,480 Speaker 1: Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your 741 00:38:49,560 --> 00:38:50,280 Speaker 1: favorite shows.