Ready Jet Go
What's the Great Red Spot?
Clip | 2m 7sVideo has Closed Captions
Jet, Sydney, Sean, and Mindy learn about the Great Red Spot on Jupiter.
FACE 9000 tells Jet, Sydney, Sean, and Mindy about the Great Red Spot, which is actually a superstorm that has been raging on Jupiter for over 300 Earth years!
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Ready Jet Go
What's the Great Red Spot?
Clip | 2m 7sVideo has Closed Captions
FACE 9000 tells Jet, Sydney, Sean, and Mindy about the Great Red Spot, which is actually a superstorm that has been raging on Jupiter for over 300 Earth years!
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- Don'’t worry, Sunspot.
We will get you to Jupiter.
- [whimpers] - [chattering] - [chattering] - [wails] - [groans] - So you'’ve never missed a Great Red Spot Day?
- Mm-mm.
- Do you really think we can get him to Jupiter?
- Oh, yes!
- Absolutely.
- Huh?
- Maybe we can even make something that'’ll get Sunspot there faster than my parents'’ saucer.
- Here comes the choo-choo train.
Open up.
Good.
Now take a sip.
- So what exactly is the Great Red Spot?
It'’s like a part of Mars got stuck on Jupiter'’s surface.
- Or something like in that Commander Cressida story, "Red, Hot Jupiter."
- The Red Spot sounds pretty complicated, guys.
- I'’ll help explain it, Mindy.
Actually, the Great Red Spot is pretty simple.
Take a look.
- It looks like an egg.
Or an eye.
- Now let'’s get it going.
This is how the Red Spot swirls.
- Wow!
Now it looks like a big going-around-and-around storm.
- Bingo!
Exactly, Sydney.
The Great Red Spot is a red superstorm that'’s been raging on Jupiter for over 300 Earth years.
all: 300 years?
- But how can a storm last 300 years?
It only rains here for a few days.
- Jupiter is a way different world from ours.
Cloudy, right?
- Exactly.
Cloudy and it has no solid surface, so the Great Red Spot storm can spin and blow on and on.
- The Great Red Spot doesn'’t seem to be going away anytime soon.
And neither is the Red Spot Club.
- [giggles] [alarm ringing] - Sunspot says it'’s only one hour till the Red Spot Club meets!
Come on!
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