Why Is Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Red? 🪐

Éabha, who is six, and Fionn, who is eight, both wrote to us about the same thing: what is the red spot on Jupiter made of, and why is it red?

In this episode, we'll find out that the Great Red Spot is a storm so big that Earth could fit inside it, and that a spacecraft called Juno has measured how far down it reaches. We'll visit a laboratory where scientists turned a frozen chemical reddish orange, and we'll learn why nobody can say for certain yet what colours the storm. 

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Sleep Tight!, 

Sheryl & Clark

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