Extraterrestrial Superstorms
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- Опубліковано 15 сер 2017
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Earth has its share of monster storms, but even our most powerful hurricanes are a breeze compared to the great, planet-sized tempests of the gas giants. LegalZoom is not a law firm or a substitute for the advice of an attorney. Get 15% off your next purchase at www.legalzoom.com/spacetime. ...
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The great vortices of the Jovian planets are true storms, analogous in many ways to Earth’s hurricanes. There are, of course, some differences. For example, these storms are as big as entire planets. The largest and oldest storm in the solar system is Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, stretching an incredible two to three times the diameter of the planet Earth. Meanwhile the fastest winds ever measured, clocking fifteen hundred miles per hour, once raged in Neptune’s Great Dark Spot. Saturn’s Polar Vortex is a 20,000-mile-wide monster shaped like a hexagon. Even plain-looking Uranus hides USA-sized hurricanes below its methane haze. There are many unsolved mysteries surrounding these epic storms. We may be close to finding some answers, following the Juno spacecraft’s recent flyby of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot.
Juno's interactive website: www.missionjuno.swri.edu/
Written by Alexandra Yep and Matt O’Dowd
Hosted by Matt O' Dowd
Produced by Rusty Ward
Graphics by Kurt Ross
Assistant Editing and Sound Design by Mike Petrow
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Jupiter's moon are named after his affairs. Juno is Jupiter's wife. NASA sent Juno to check on Jupiter. Very clever.
Wow thank you for giving me this knowledge 💛
Astrophysicist are fcking nerds and I absolutely love every single bit of it.
No wayyyyy, that's absolutely INCREDIBLE!!! I had to Google it real quick, just because I simply *needed to know for sure* that this was true, and now I'm equipped with knowledge that I almost certainly wouldn't have come across or put together myself if I didn't stumble on your comment at the right moment.
And I only knew who Callisto was in that mythology prior to reading your comment, it just never occurred to me to go check who every one of even just the Galilean moons were named after. So now I know that _Ganymede_ was the most beautiful and handsome *mortal man* (and a Trojan, which is super cool), who Zeus carried off to come be his/their cup-bearer, and the bearer of... _something different,_ as you alluded to hahahaha.
What a phenomenal knowledge drop you made 5 years ago, I'm totally over the moon thrilled that I found it!!!!! Thank you 😎😎
Wow, this episode sounds downright local compared to some of the previous ones.
Given how absurdly huge even our own planet is, I can't believe I just said that.
I feel like I'm skipping class if I miss a video.
I want a museum that just display space pictures like works of art. Like, seriously, if you were to tell me the pictures in 8:57 were drawn, I wouldn't have doubted you.
Nature never fails to look amazing up close.
I've spent the last few weeks watching all of the Space Time videos starting at the very first, and I'm *finally* all caught up! Some of the most intellectually stimulating content on UA-cam.
Too much! But, if you just needed to get back to your ship you'd be better off peeing your way there.
r/iamverysmart
On the whole net
Hahaha sammmeeee
I'm doing it now starting few weeks ago, 5 videos per day, as soon as I discovered the channel.
Nice to have a break from the more complicated physics. Thanks!
"My barber just shaves half-integer spin off the sides..."
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA... nearly fell off my chair!
"... by the collapse of the planet itself" i do not know how you can drop such a mindbomb with a straight face.
I love that you are adding things like the very last question :D
This host makes me laugh at least once per video.
Thanks for the lessons man!
Those Juno images of Jupiter are some of the most amazing pictures ever
Finally something I could actually understand without pretending again :D
PBS is knocking it out of the park, keep these great videos coming please! I am using your presentations to encourage my teenage daughter in her science studies. :) Cheers!
BTW thanks for the glasses, they're awesome and a nice gift to the patreons.
These days, I find refuge in Space Time more than ever. Science and Physics have no politics, no agenda, just plain existence. I love it.
i'm 31 years old and i just now grasped intuitively what the coriolis effect is. thanks!
Finally something i can comprehend :)
9:25 mental image of Xzibit emerges
I'm just saying, but "Extraterrestrial Superstorms" is the most badass name anything could ever have.
Anyone get the Mr. Beams ad??? Genuinely the best advertisement on UA-cam right now
I loved that song "Ice, Ice Baby" by Ammonia Ice.
This dudes voice makes me want to play Skyrim.
If Matt has a daughter, explanations about superstorms are probably her bedtime story.
Wish I was this luck, really.
What about sending a probe right into the eye of the Great red spot? I presume the wind speeds are relatively slower and must be more easy for the probe to descend.
8:58 Are these really photos? They look like they belong on the wall of an art gallery. ö,ö
My favorite is the one at 9:03 - I would put that on a wall in my livingroom anytime. :D
9:20 hey it's Jovey McJupiterface!
What a throwback putting Giygas as the thumbnail.
Another fascinating and informative video, keep up the great work Space Time!
Does Jupiters magnetic field protect Europas atmosphere?
Alex Korocencev that's a really good question
europa does not have a appreciable atmosphere
Europa is bombarded with radiation from Jupiter itself. If there is life on Europa, it should be largely shielded from that radiation but not from an atmosphere or a magnetic field but the kilometers of water and ice above it. Life living on the surface of Europa is impossible as far as we know.
Does that mean that a scenario like Cameron's Avatar, with an ocean moon orbiting a gas giant and having carbon based life on it is impossible, or at least highly improbable?
+OmegaWolf747 - I'm sure it's somewhat improbable, but I seriously doubt it's impossible.
One easy way might be to give the moon a molten iron core and move it out away from the host's magnetic field.
And, not all gas giants have such powerful magnetic fields.
what is the density of the jupiter's liquid metallic hydrogen? Can i swim in it?
well, imagine the crushing pressures of being at the bottom of the worlds deepest oceans. On land, the atmospheric pressure is about 15 pounds per square inch, but the bottom of Mariana Trench is 16,000 PSI
but in the high pressure depths of Jupiter it's 650 million PSI.
You would turn into a popsicle in a few seconds. And you would be crushed flat.
Alysson Azevedo Just swim in molten Gold. It will kill you differently, but your corpse will look cooler (if there is anything left to you and your bones not just vaporize along with the rest of your body) .
Its too far away to swim there
Alysson Azevedo you would be crushed immediately, if you *somehow* survived, it would contain a ridiculous amount of electrical charge, plus its hella cold
I'm glad this episode had some meteorology in it, finally something I understood before the video started! quick question though, what direction would a hurricane rotate if it formed directly on the equator?(assuming winds didn't soon blow the formation to one hemisphere or the other)
It can't, to form it needs the Coriolis force, which spins and stabilizes it. In fact we haven't seen hurricanes form within about 5 degrees of the equator, they just can't grow big enough.
good answer, I wasn't sure if anyone else would think about that. In addition to needing the Coriolis force for the winds, you also have to take ocean currents into account, as they get their heat and energy from the heat in the water.
Wow, thank you! Another truly fascinating video, please keep up the great work.
There is some shrinkage
Must be cold out there.
It shrinks?!
Like a frightened turtle!
what do you mean like laundry?
I WAS IN THE POOL!
The spot is on a diet.
Summer body for summer 2050.
I know I'm not the only one who's stoned and just fully immersed in a haze of science knowledge.
Eddies? Sounds like an entropy machine. Every part of science so neatly fits together, even when we can't see its elegance.
As an American, you don't need to use imperial units for my benefit. I can think in kilometers just fine thanks.
@@jamesbra4410 Dumb tard
@@jamesbra4410 take american 10 years old child, who was taught Imperial system and ask him how many feet Is in a mile? How long does it take to answer? How accurate? Then ask a child in Europe, how many meters is in a kilometer? Everyone knows it and doesnt have to think, it's automatic, because metric system has inner logic, unlike imperial and the conversions are so confusing, that many adults in USA have hard time to answer the simple mathematical questions in their familiar Imperial, but maybe Im wrong, maybe most Americans got it right immediately, like we do with metric....ok, answer without doubt and hesitation.....how many ounces is in one pound?...ask me anything in metric system and you dont have to wait for answer
Well yes the metric system is much more beautiful than the imperial system that the US copied from the British empire hundreds of years ago. The metric system has mathematical symmetry as well as a simple relation between volume and mass, (1000 cm3 = 1 L) and also is much simpler for all engineering and science. Trying to do calculations with the American system for engineering is a headache compared to the superior metric system. Americans already use the International System of Units for everything else besides length, mass, and temperature anyway. @@karlvonbahnhof6594
James, being anti-european isn't helping imperial units' case. OP's being a smartass, sure, but be respectful.
Karl von Bahnhof that’s because there is this other measurement called yards, which correlates to meters better; so, no, it would not be necessary to think in feet.
"A storm of thank you's"
* narrows eyes *
Me too... to help focus on the monsoon of end-credit puns.
Despite being anticyclonic as viewed from the top of their atmosphere, it's a mistake to assume that this equates to a "high pressure" storm. In fact Earth hurricanes also exhibit anticyclonic circulation in the upper troposphere.
So you're telling me that someday, possibly in my lifetime, Jupiter will no longer have it's iconic red spot?
Valar Discoveris...all men must discover :)
Astitv Shandilya yaas!
I just watched the StarTalk with Matt on it. I have a question about the simulation discussion. Isn't it true that although a simulation of the universe requires a source the size of the universe, scale is irrelevant at this point because the source of the simulation could simply exist within a universe many times bigger than our own,therefore having a simulator the size of our universe still could be small in context?
Love the show by the way
I don't buy that argument anyway. I mean the whole observer problem could simply be the simulation not rendering anything that's not being looked at. This would greatly reduce processing power. Throw in compression and other goodies, you could do it for a lot less than a universe sized computer.
I believe the idea for having a quantum computer is to calculate these kinds of ideas.
It depends on compression so in theory you could have spaces that dont require observation be 1 electron per atom in the area with a algorithm to male sure the total area reacts appropriately over time. That would be a computer system smaller than the area of interest.
Conor OConnor yea you might be able to reduce scale by a third by having a system that can be 0 and 1 at the same time
PBS Space Time kind of already covered this with Neil Degrasse Tyson, but one way you can get around this dilemma is to not store all information but only information you can react with. An easy way to picture this is video games. Take Skyrim or GTA for example: there is a larger "universe" than the game physically loads into memory, it only loads in what you can react with (or 'observe'.) This way, you can have a big 'universe' in game, without having to actually physically process all of the interactions necessary for it to exist. Maybe this is the explanation for the wave collapse functionality that we seem to observe. I'm more of a Bohmian Mechanics man myself, but there are certainly times where the Copenhagen Institute's view is fun (and useful) to entertain. Also, from my own opinion with a background in IT: there are certainly methods of having large systems of data compressed into smaller sizes. Deduplication is an excellent example. Instead of storing a giant number over and over again, you use 'pointers' to reference it instead of storing it twice. We compress data constantly in our lives, yet the thought seems to constantly evade many philosophers. Imho, bohm was right (in this context) and the universe is deterministic and there are formulas/algorithms that help compress the amount of data in order to make the simulation feasible.
Wow I was recently researching this subject on my own, thank you Space Time for keeping on point with my interests
This was a cool change for a style of video. Explaining how storms are formed on earth and how it correlates to extraterrestrial storms gave a nice foundation on the information provided. Keep calm and storm eye on!
I think people who are bothered by units should just switch careers and do political science or philosophy so you can argue . Haha I prefer metric but I'm not complaining about converting.
Is the slight procession in the orbit of Juno the same as the procession in the orbit of Mercury, as in it is predicted by general relativity but not Newton's law of gravitation? If not, what causes it?
It seems to be, this is still being tested since there are other effects when dealing with such a small object that is not a sphere and can be maneuvered: arxiv.org/abs/0812.1485
Gareth Dean Great source, thanks for the reply!
I'm glad I'm not the only one who appreciates a righteous beard.
in case you've been wondering people in antarctica don't fall off the planet because of gravity
Love that shirt! Nice!
Maybe the shrinkage is caused by the cold.
I don't know the exact ratio, but indeed part of Jupiter's diameter is due to it's temperature, colder gases occupy less space than hotter gases, so as it cools down, it shrinks.
Quite a bit, at least for its atmosphere. But its temperature isn't dropping. In fact it's warmer than it should be, again DUE to the collapse. (The released gravitational energy becomes heat.)
That was a penis joke. Because I am classy.
Seriously, thanks a lot for your videos PBS Spacetime. Really usefull to our little planet :)
I think at 2:31 the animated symbols representing hurricanes etc. are inverted or at least confusing if they would like to show counterclockwise for Northern emisphere and clockwise for the southern one...
Thanks for the video not so cosmological... changing is a pleasure sometimes. Best regards from Italy.
Please use the metric system, you're fellow Australian come on.
Precisely! Especially for a science channel, imperial is just a joke
dab-for-grandma Then go watch the australian PBS and fuck off.
your**
Wallowing in ignorance is not the way to learn anything. Muricans are completely fucked because of the way they do things.
PBS spacetime does everything in metric. Don't know wtf you're talking about.
You failed to explain how storms work in the Flat Earth model. The internet will be enraged.
God sends them to punish the wicked (Or gays, same thing.) I thought everyone knew that?
thank you for doing what you are doing. I enjoy learning how the universe actually works on micro and macroscopic scales. knowledge is power and power is what charges spacetime!
That art at 5:45 is gorgeous.
If the big red spot on jupiter is a megastorm, why don't we build windmills there?
butt dickenz your a different kind of stupid aren't you
Butt... butt... butt.... I already did!
butt dickenz We dont want to hurt the birds
To do what? You can't exactly run powerlines all the way from Jupiter back to Earth. And sorry Mr. Tesla but long distance wireless power transmission on that kind of scale is still a pipe dream.
But what if there is life on jupiter, windmills cause global warming you know
The only chanel That makes me feel like a. Nooob ! 😅xd
That last joke went beyond dad jokes hahahaha
I'm only afraid I'm gonna die before we truly start exploring the stars in earnest. I'm so happy to see humanity exploring our system, and maybe soon our galaxy
*Lately, I've been wondering this about Jupiter:* Since the notion is already quite popular that Jupiter could've become a star had it accumulated more mass, is it ever going to be a possibility in the far future that it could start a fusion reaction? As mentioned in this episode, the gravity continues to collapse its mass deeper onto the core, which should also increase its potential gravitational force. What are the chances that it could suck in more mass in, like its moons, comets, etc. and gain enough energy to ignite?
Roughly 0% chance. Jupiter doesn't even have enough mass to become a brown dwarf. It may be possible at some point for a brief period of fusion occurring, but, there just isn't enough mass for sustained fusion.
Thanks for your input. I should've thought about the millions of other super gas giants out there, ahead in line, looking for a promotion! It's now obvious to me that it would take a lot more for our Jupiter to become a _star_
It would need the mass of dozens of Jupiters IIRC, so I'm guessing zero chance
Not a specialist, but it would need 40 times more mass to become same size brown dwarf... Would need more mass than there is in Solar system (without Sun).
I just checked more info and it says that the smallest stars known are at least 100 times heavier than Jupiter.
You are a PBS channel. Please use metric system when talking about scientific things. Imperial systems already costs the space industry so much money every year!
David Lundberg for a country that largely doesn't use the metric system, unfortunately.
David Lundberg this is American public broadcasting.. we don't fuck with that
we only use Freedom Units here bucko
THE US DOES NOT USE IMPERIAL UNITS!!!!!!! Yes, I am shouting. If you are going to complain about the units we use, then at the very least learn what those units are.
+Zarozapa CnJ _"Americans: getting dumber every day."_
Non-Americans: so dumb they can't deal with the fact that not everyone uses the same units.
Obligatory Space Odyssey reference: Jupiter is collapsing, The Great Red Spot is shrinking, have anyone seen a strange black Monolith?
This episode rocked, thank you :)
"Puntunity"
You mean "oppuntunity".
"Earth is, of course, rotating on its axis."
Controversial.
Andrew Kay What?? Are you one of those flat-Earth dumbfucks?
In 1884, meridian time personnel met in Washington to change Earth time. First words said was that only 1 day could be used on Earth to not change the 1 day bible. So they applied the 1 day and ignored the other 3 days. The bible time was wrong then and it proved wrong today. This a major lie has so much evil feed from it's wrong. No man on Earth has no belly-button, it proves every believer on Earth a liar.
+antred11 - Be nice! One in ten of your fellow citizens is mentally ill and needs your help.
www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/08/do-you-believe-the-eclipse-is-going-to-happen/537090/
about* its axis
I get excited when I see a new space time video
Finally an episode I might be able to understand
So do toilets flush in the opposite direction in the Southern Hemisphere?
Toilets are too small for the Coriolis Effect to matter. The deciding factor is the design of the toilet itself.
Nooooo! The Simpsons was wrong!!!!!!!!
Alan Dotts watch the veritasium/SmarterEveryDay collab video
yes.
Alan Dotts No. The direction of toilet flush is determined by the toilet itself.
*Spoiler:* They won't stop Jake Paul from dabbing.
But...
...what if the haters... *dab back*
I come here to get away from all that shit please just stop
Stfu
Brian Gallagher wrote a text about Philip Marcus and his studying of Jupiters great red spot from the point of fluid dynamics. Really great and interesting thing to read.
I know it's infantile, but "jupiter's red spot is experiencing shrinkage" sounds really funny
Makes a nigga wanna be a storm chaser
But The Man won't letcha!
could quantum entanglement allow for faster than light communication?
MrWardonis yes theoretically
or at least light-speed communication with 100% coverage everywhere in the universe?
They already explained it. Quantum entanglement is not what you think it is.
wrong video
Maybe. There, now you have a complete set of answers. Yay!
The last joke is always so funny 😂 Great job!
Came for the Uranus joke. Was not disappointed.
Could you please stop using freedom units of measure and start using real ones? Thanks!
EDIT: Jesus Christ this comment section has become a shit storm, so let me address some stuff:
1. This is first of all a youtube channel and secondly a PBS channel that should pride itself as having an international following and there for should use the most common unit of measure. (not to mention that it's a science channel)
2. Unless you want to use another base for numbering, 10 is the best division for a unit as you can transform from one division to another just by looking at the number.
3. I completely agree they should be using both units, but between using only one of them, metric should always be used
I like freedom units.
wingracer 16 I luv them
Berindei I.A Why do you hate freedom?
Could you adjust to others instead of asking others to adjust to you?
Elitist metric superiority. 12 is divisible by 2,3,4 and 6. 10 is only divisible by 2 and 5.
loved the video, still DISLIKED because of imperial units
this is unforgivable in science vids, sorry
A quick correction. "that they are (observably) subject to the Coriolis force". I'm sure you wouldn't want to sound as though claiming that the presence of the Coriolis force is dependent up the distance something has traveled.
Fantastic host, awesome content. Love these videos :)
Is there any way to find out how old the Great Red Spot actually is?
the missing elements are groove and impermanence - anything with a rhythm has a groove, and grooves only matter because they are impermanent
Space, and what humans are capable of gleaning from it, is fucking amazing.
Everyone knows that the Great Red Spot is dissipating because of the Monolith.
"It's shrinking!"
Those are some great photos Juno
please do more videos like this,based upon planets and their weird things
1:00 "even plain looking Uranus" you need to apologize to Uranus right now
5:50 We need a movie spaceship pursuit in that environment!
Your voice is so soothing, it puts me to sleep in an instant. It helps especially when you guys have such great content.
I started watching this. Then I noticed that Looking Glass Universe had a new video on Bohmian Mechanocs. I had to prioritize. I watched her video and now I'm back. You should give her a shout out. Great channel that your fans would also enjoy. She doesn't have the PBS resources and is still doing her PhD work, so she can't keep to a regular schedule like you, but she does as great a job with explaining high level physics. She focuses more on quantum mechanics while you focus more on astrophysics, though obviously you both do both.
Nice Jovey McJuipiterFace you have there!
Entitlement in the comment section, so much entitlement... Thank you Space Time crew, your content is absolutely fantastic and your videos are some of the best in all of UA-cam (of course I haven't watch of all UA-cam, but take the compliment anyway). Great content, great host, great format, great production value. Keep it up!
seems to be an important topic
this man is definitely an intellectual . his head is disproportionately larger than his torso
Anyone else notice the super-subtle Earth map image behind the Jupiter image at 6:30?
Juno is amazing. Very exciting science.
I love this show! And the host! Brilliant and funny!!!
Thank you matt. You have officially verified that Bill Nye is a science guy.
How could you possibly know the size of the storm in 1800s ?
Thank You 🔭