Solar System: Storm Worlds Preview
Preview: Season 51 Episode 9 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
Discover the dramatic forces creating spectacular weather on neighboring planets and moons.
Out in the solar system, the weather gets wacky – with globe-spanning dust storms, monsoons of liquid methane, and lightning 10 times stronger than here on Earth. Discover the forces driving the dramatic weather on neighboring planets and moons.
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Solar System: Storm Worlds Preview
Preview: Season 51 Episode 9 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
Out in the solar system, the weather gets wacky – with globe-spanning dust storms, monsoons of liquid methane, and lightning 10 times stronger than here on Earth. Discover the forces driving the dramatic weather on neighboring planets and moons.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship(thunder crashing) - [Narrator] On "NOVA Solar System."
(majestic music) - [Speaker In Blue] If you have a different atmosphere, you get different weather.
Different phenomena playing out.
- Oh, Venus has clouds?
They're battery acid.
- Buckets of rain are falling.
It's not water, but liquid methane.
- It's a moon that looks like this.
Not a planet.
- [Narrator] "Storm Worlds."
- [Speaker In Purple] You would be stunned by what you see.
- [Narrator] On "NOVA."
(mystical music)
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