What Rain is Like on Other Planets
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 963 Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2021
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Learn about rain on other planets; why Americans used to not use forks; and whether sleep or exercise is more important.
What is rain like on other planets? by Cameron Duke
- Dhingra, R. D., Barnes, J. W., Brown, R. H., Burrati, B. J., Sotin, C., Nicholson, P. D., Baines, K. H., Clark, R. N., Soderblom, J. M., Jauman, R., Rodriguez, S., Mouélic, S. L., Turtle, E. P., Perry, J. E., Cottini, V., & Jennings, D. E. (2019). Observational Evidence for Summer Rainfall at Titan’s North Pole. Geophysical Research Letters, 46(3), 1205–1212. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018gl080943
- https://jpl.nasa.gov. (2012, September 11). NASA Observations Point to “Dry Ice” Snowfall on Mars. Nasa.gov. https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-observations-point-to-dry-ice-snowfall-on-mars
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- Tomaswick, A. (2021). Fascinating Infograph Shows What Rain Is Like Elsewhere in The Solar System. ScienceAlert. https://www.sciencealert.com/this-graph-shows-what-raindrops-would-be-like-on-other-worlds
Additional resources from Jason Feifer:
- Build for Tomorrow podcast: https://www.jasonfeifer.com/build-for-tomorrow/
- Website: https://www.jasonfeifer.com/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/heyfeifer
Sleep vs. Exercise: Which Is More Important? originally aired September 23, 2018 https://omny.fm/shows/curiosity-daily/sleep-vs-exercise-milky-way-pictures-military-meth
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Curiosity.com. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm Cody Gough. |
| 0:07.0 | And I'm Ashley Hamer. |
| 0:08.0 | Today you learn about what rain is like on other planets, |
| 0:11.0 | why it took Americans a long time to start using forks with help from |
| 0:14.8 | Jason Fyfer, and whether it's more important to sleep or exercise. |
| 0:20.0 | Let's exercise some curiosity. Earth is a special place and the fact that it rains liquid water here is actually a big part of that. |
| 0:29.0 | But just because Earth is the only planet with abundant water doesn't mean it's the only place where it rains. |
| 0:36.1 | Rain is more common in the solar system than you might think, although sometimes it just looks a bit different. |
| 0:42.1 | Let's talk about how. |
| 0:44.0 | Most worlds in our solar system have precipitation, |
| 0:47.0 | and they don't let their lack of water get in the way. |
| 0:50.0 | Take Venus, which gives the phrase acid rain a whole new meaning. |
| 0:55.0 | There, sulfuric acid condenses in the clouds and falls down as rain. |
| 1:00.3 | But because Venus is so hot, this rain never reaches the surface. |
| 1:04.0 | Instead, it evaporates in the intense heat of the lower atmosphere. |
| 1:08.0 | Saturn's largest moon, Titan, has seasons that come with rain. |
| 1:13.8 | NASA's Cassini spacecraft spotted liquid methane raining on Titan's North Pole when it passed |
| 1:19.1 | by. |
| 1:20.1 | The weird thing is that clouds don't form on Titan, so the jury's still out on how exactly methane cycles work on the massive moon. |
| 1:29.0 | Mars is known to have water, but the water we know about is frozen. So instead it snows frozen carbon dioxide, |
| 1:38.5 | also known as dry ice. Scientists know this because instruments on the satellite known as the Mars Reconnaissance |
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