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The Universe: Wildest Weather in the Cosmos
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The Universe: Wildest Weather in the Cosmos

106 MIN · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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Weather elsewhere in the solar system has little in common with a rainy afternoon on Earth. This episode of The Universe catalogs the extremes: tornado-like storms on Saturn and Jupiter with winds clocked near 6,000 miles per hour, and a planet where the rain, driven by scorching heat and metal-rich clouds, falls as iron. Astronomers and planetary scientists explain what generates these systems, tying each phenomenon back to the physics that also produces storms on Earth, just scaled up by different gravity, atmosphere, and heat. Footage moves between telescope and probe imagery and computer-generated visualizations of cloud bands, dust storms, and lightning on worlds no camera has landed on. The episode treats these planets less as backdrops and more as active weather systems in their own right, each shaped by its distance from the sun and the chemistry of its atmosphere. The throughline is comparison: understanding why Neptune's winds outrun anything on Earth says as much about our own planet's relative calm as it does about Neptune.