Ready Jet Go
A Conversation with Pluto
Clip: Season 1 Episode 33 | 2m 1sVideo has Closed Captions
Mindy talks to Pluto about the dwarf planet.
The kids talk about Pluto and what it's like to be on the atmosphere. Mindy discovers the Tombaugh Regio/frozen heart.
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Ready Jet Go
A Conversation with Pluto
Clip: Season 1 Episode 33 | 2m 1sVideo has Closed Captions
The kids talk about Pluto and what it's like to be on the atmosphere. Mindy discovers the Tombaugh Regio/frozen heart.
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and you’re not an actual planet anymore?
- No, I’m all right with being a dwarf planet.
To me, it’s kind of special being different from the other planets.
- That’s great!
So what’s the most special thing about being Pluto?
- Well... [shivers] I’m super cold because it’s really, really cold this far out in the solar system.
- Really?
How cold?
- Hmm, you know what?
I’m not sure how cold, Mindy.
Now I want to know.
How cold is Pluto?
- Is it too cold to live there?
- Oh, yeah, definitely too cold for humans.
- Maybe if I built an igloo, I could live there with Sunspot.
- [chatters] - Jet, do you know how cold Pluto is?
- Huh.
I don’t know.
I remember seeing Pluto when we flew by.
But we didn’t stop there.
What do you think, Sean?
Is it colder than the coldest place on Earth?
- That’s a good question.
We just got more pictures from when New Horizons flew by.
- Cool!
- What’s New Horizons?
- It’s a spacecraft that flew right past Pluto.
And it’s still flying out of the solar system.
It’s speeding about 50 times faster than a jet plane.
And it still took nine years to get to Pluto.
- [gasps] - What?
My mom can get to Pluto in our saucer in nine minutes.
- Right.
But you’re from Bortron 7.
You guys have interstellar overdrive.
- Either way, Pluto looks like maybe its entire surface is made of ice.
- Whoa, Sydney!
Look at that big white heart.
I love it!
- Yeah, isn’t that cool?
The scientists are calling the giant heart shape the Tombaugh Regio.
- The Tombaugh Regio.
What a great name.
What’s Pluto made of, besides ice?
It looks like there are mountains, too.
Maybe they’re ice mountains.
- I love Pluto.
Yay!
It’s so small and lonely out there.
And so cold and so icy.
But it has a huge heart.
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