Studying the MYSTERIOUS storms of Neptune...
Fun Kids Science Weekly
Fun Kids
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🗓️ 7 October 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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We're boarding our rocket ship to Neptune this week! Professor Patrick Irwin from the University of Oxford is here to chat to Dan all about his research on the dark spots on Neptune. First discovered in the 1980s with new space faring technology, the spots can now be studied from Earth. This is no easy feat - they disappear and reappear all the time. And yet, Patrick and his team have made great strides in solving this science mystery!
Dangerous Dan takes us to a terrifying plant in South America known as the Devil's Trumpets (pretty appropriate name if you ask me), you'll find out how big infinity REALLY IS, and NASA's James Webb telescope is picking up signs of life among the distant stars and planets!
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| 0:33.6 | the Fun Kids Science Weekly. This week we're chatting to Professor at the University of Oxford |
| 0:38.3 | and Space Expert Patrick Irwin, talking all about dark spots on Neptune and why they appear |
| 0:45.7 | vanish and then reappear again. We've always had two flu past Neptune in 1989 and it saw this |
| 0:52.2 | large sort of dark spots on Neptune's atmosphere and we didn't really know much about it. We knew |
| 0:56.4 | it was dark and we knew that it was probably deep and it had sort of high clouds around it. |
| 1:01.6 | We know it's a kind of storm but it never been seen before. We didn't have the spacecraft to see |
| 1:06.6 | it before but since Voyager passed by, the great dark spot has disappeared entirely. But since then, |
| 1:12.8 | other dark spots have appeared occasionally every sort of three, four years, either in the north |
| 1:17.6 | or the south and that's what my studies have been looking at. You can get more from Patrick or |
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