Jupiter: A World Made of Sky

A calm bedtime science episode about Jupiter, paced gently to help a child fall asleep.Tonight's episode travels past the satellites, past the Moon, past Mars, out to the largest planet in the solar system. Earth is a ball of rock wrapped in a thin coat of air. Jupiter is the opposite. There are no mountains under its clouds, no valleys, no ocean floor. The sky isn't a coat on Jupiter. The sky is the planet.Go deep enough and the pressure grows so enormous that hydrogen stops behaving like a gas and begins to flow like liquid metal. Higher up, winds race east and west in opposite directions, and where they slide past each other, storms begin.And on Jupiter, storms don't stop. Here on Earth, a hurricane crosses onto land and the land ends it. Jupiter has no land. Which is why one storm there, the Great Red Spot, has been turning for nearly two hundred years, and is still wide enough to swallow the Earth.One voice. Real science. No music, no effects, no screen required. Works as well on the fifth night as the first. Parents often drift off first.The Bedtime Scientist is a bedtime science show for children and families, made for the quiet part of the night when a curious kid isn't quite ready to sleep.Every episode, printable parent guides, and books are at bedtimescientist.com.If your family listens often, following the show and leaving a rating helps other families find it.A bedtime science story about Jupiter, its endless sky, and the storm that has no ground to stop it.