01x09 - A Kid's Guide to Mars/Jet 2

[bunniefuu]

[together] Ready! Jet! Go!

- ♪ Jet Propulsion ♪

♪ That's his name ♪

♪ Jet Propulsion ♪

♪ He'll rocket to fame ♪

♪ When he arrived, he created a buzz ♪

♪ 'Cause there was no house ♪

♪ And then there was, he said ♪

- ♪ People of Earth! You ain't seen nothing yet! ♪

♪ I'm from Bortron , and my name is Jet! ♪

- ♪ Jet Propulsion ♪

♪ That's his name ♪

♪ He looks like us ♪

♪ But he isn't the same ♪

- ♪ I'm a space tripper and a galaxy crosser ♪

♪ My parents brought me here in a flying saucer ♪

- ♪ And just to prove it was a fact ♪

♪ He flew them out to space and back ♪

♪ Jet Propulsion ♪

[spaceship whirring]

- ♪ Jet Propulsion ♪

[together] Ready! Jet! Go!

- ♪ He showed up, and now it's a blast ♪

♪ Looks like the future really got here fast ♪

- ♪ Nice to meet you, human race ♪

♪ Tell me all about the place ♪

- Jet Propulsion!

- Jet Propulsion!

- Jet Propulsion!

all: Ready! Jet! Go!

- Is it just me,

or is it hard to tell which way is north on this map?

- [whistles]

- Oh. Thanks, Sunspot.

- I don't know, Jet,

something seems strange about this map.

Are you sure that's Earth?

- Don't ask me.

I'm the new kid on this planet.

- It doesn't look like the globe at my school.

If that's Earth, where are the continents?

- And are those supposed to be oceans?

- Yeah, and if that's Earth, where am I?

- [laughs]

Sorry, Mindy, you're not on the map.

Maps are about continents, oceans, and things like that.

- Hmm.

It would be a lot more interesting if I were in it.

[pen scratches]

That's better.

- Hi, everyone!

Are you still figuring out that old map?

- Yeah, trying to.

Well, maybe we can help.

It came from this very old travel book.

- Wow, that looks super old.

- In fact, we were just about to go update it.

Would you kids like to come with us on an adventure?

- Sure, that sounds like fun.

- Okay, off to Mars we go!

- Mars? We're going to Mars?

- Yep, we leave in five minutes, kids!

- And we've got a lot of updating to do.

That map must be billions of years old!

- Wait, that's a map of Mars?

How could that be? It looks like Earth.

- Yeah, that gives me a lot of questions.

Like, well, like--

- Like what on Earth happened to Mars?

- And the biggest question:

did I just agree to go to Mars in the saucer?

- Yep, you sure did.

- I have to stop doing that.

- Guys, I was thinking.

If Mars once looked like Earth,

do you think there were once Martian people living up there?

- You mean a long time ago?

Like billions and billions of years?

- Yeah. Or even now.

- Ooh! Martians!

[chiming]

- Good idea, Sunspot.

Let's ask Face what happened to Mars.

Hey, Face?

- Hello, everyone!

Today you get two for the price of one!

My brother is here today: Face .

- Yeah, I'm Face .

He's older but I'm smarter.

- h*, yeah right! [clears throat]

How appropriate that you asked about Mars

while my brother was visiting.

Did you know that Mars was once called our "Brother Planet?"

- You mean, Earth and Mars are brothers like you two?

- Well, not exactly. You see--

- You see, once, long ago, Mars and Earth were both--

- Hey, I was telling them first.

- Ouch! Move over!

- No, you move over. - No, just--

- This is my space. - I want my--

- Stop it! - I want--

- Face! And Face!

It's okay. You can both tell us!

- Both of us?

- Sure.

One of you can do the words,

and the other can do the pictures.

- Ooh! That's a great idea.

About billion years ago,

Mars and Earth were alike in many ways.

They were both similar distances from the Sun,

their days were both almost the same length,

and Mars even had rivers, streams, and oceans.

Then something happened--

- Hey! What happened?

- Uh, Face? Where'd you go?

We can't see you!

- Oh, I told you not to touch that button.

- Yeah, well, you're not my boss.

- I'm telling! Mom!

- I'm glad I'm an only child.

- Yeah, there's got to be an easier way to learn about Mars.

[horn honks]

- Hoo! Hop in, kids!

We're off to Mars!

- That's not what I meant by "an easier way."

- Bye, Sean!

Hope you don't get saucer-sick!

- [sighs]

- h*, I get nervous sometimes too, Sean.

But I've found that singing helps.

- Right. Let's sing.

- ♪ , , , , ♪

♪ Doors are shut, engines on ♪

♪ Everybody in their place? ♪

♪ Let's go into outer space! ♪

[together] Ready! Jet! Go!

[Sean screaming]

[spaceship whirring]

[spaceship humming]

- Actually, I can't think of any songs.

- Ooh!

I've got one we can sing the whole way!

["Row, Row, Row Your Boat"] ♪ Fly, fly, fly your saucer ♪

together: ♪ Down the Milky Way ♪

♪ Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily ♪

- Well, that's it, Sean.

When you get to the end, just repeat it again!

♪ Fly, fly, fly your saucer ♪

[together] ♪ Down the Milky Way ♪

♪ Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily ♪

♪ This goes on all day ♪

♪ Fly, fly, fly your saucer ♪

♪ Down the Milky Way ♪

♪ Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily ♪

♪ This goes on all day ♪

- Whoo. Here we are.

Mars.

- [sighs] Thanks, Mr. Propulsion.

Singing did help the trip go fast.

- [sighs] Not for all of us.

- [chiming]

[spaceship whirring]

[door thuds]

- Welcome to Mars!

Today, all of you kids get to help Celery and me

update our travel book.

- Oof!

As you can see, Mars doesn't look like this anymore.

- That's for sure.

- So now, we're going to break into teams,

go out and take some new pictures.

- We should have a new book together in no time!

[boinging]

- Oh, here's another Mars rock. Uh, hold it up for me?

[camera beeps]

- Wow, Dad.

Do you think this was part of a Martian house once?

- We don't really know what's under the surface of Mars.

That's one thing scientists on Earth are trying to learn about.

- Cool. But how?

- They use robots to look around and dig under the surface.

Do you remember the Mars rover Boop up here on Mars?

- Oh, yeah!

Hey, wouldn't it be cool if we ran into her?

- h*, it sure would, but it probably won't happen.

She could be anywhere.

We'll have to wait until she reports in to the scientists.

- Boop? Boop!

Huh. I guess you're right, Dad.

Mars is a pretty big planet.

- There used to be a river here, but it's all dry now.

- So this is an old riverbed?

Where's all the water?

- Well, that's a good question.

And there's a clue in the skies.

[camera beeps]

- Hmm.

The sky does look different from Earth's.

It's not blue, and there aren't any big white fluffy clouds.

- Ha! Exactly.

In order to hold water on the planet,

Mars would need a lot more atmosphere.

Atmosphere is the gases around a planet that hold in moisture.

- So...somehow Mars lost its atmosphere.

But how?

- [laughs]

Well that's what scientists on Earth are exploring.

Maybe you'll be one of them yourself one day.

- Maybe I will!

- Brrr. What does the thermometer say?

[chimes]

Whoo. That's really cold.

Let me take a picture of it for the book.

[camera beeps]

[electronic whirring]

- Well, I learned a lot for our guidebook today.

How about you kids?

- I learned why we haven't found any life yet on Mars.

Life needs water.

There's not enough atmosphere in the air on Mars

to keep water on the ground.

- And there's nothing living in the red dust on Mars, either.

- And it's not anywhere near warm enough

for anyone to live here.

- I have to admit, I saw for myself:

there are no real Martians.

In fact, I'm not gonna talk about real Martians anymore.

I'm not even going to think about real Martians anymore.

- [chitters]

- [screams] A real Martian!

- [laughs] No, it's a real Sunspot.

- [yips]

- Sunspot! Where were you?

- [yips]

- Oh! - Awesome!

- You found Boop! Cool!

I wish we all had seen her.

- I guess we've got a reason to come back to Mars now.

- Well, that's the spirit, Sean.

Glad you're up for more space travel.

- Well, you know me: Mr. Adventure.

- Thanks so much for all your help, kids.

This is going to be a great guide book!

- Okay, guys, let's get on board.

After you.

- Oh, no. After you.

- No, no, please. After you.

[both laugh]

- Oh, dear. - Whoops.

- Ooh, next stop: home.

[spaceship humming]

[robot beeping]

[spaceship humming]

[tires squeak]

- [gasps] Jet! You're back!

- Mindy! You're still here!

[together] We're back too!

- I was just talking to Face and Other Face.

We want to know.

Did you find out what Mars is like?

- We sure did, Mindy,

and we have pictures to show you.

- Goody! Did you see any Martian people?

- There aren't any Martians up there now, or maybe ever.

Here. Look.

- This is Mars now?

The water's all gone.

What happened?

- There's still a lot of questions we have about Mars.

- And that's why we have rovers up there gathering information.

- I really wish we could have all the answers now.

- That's okay, kids.

My mom always said,

"Great science starts with great questions."

- No, she didn't.

She always said, "Your brother knows everything."

- Nonsense!

I was the one who was right about Mars!

- I was right too!

- I was righter.

More right. Quit nudging me!

Mom!

- Stop it both of you.

both: Yes, Mother.

- Well, for now we know one thing.

We know there's no one living on Mars.

- But maybe there will be one day.

Take a look.

Grown-up me on Mars!

Maybe by then we'll figure out how to live there.

- Neat.

And maybe Mindy and I can open the first restaurant on Mars.

- Yeah, his cooking is definitely not from Earth.

- I bet the Martians will love

my tuna and marshmallow casserole!

[chomping]

Well, there's still time to adjust the recipe.

[all laugh]

all: Sunspot!

- What's the longest road trip you've ever been on?

A few days? Maybe even a week?

Hi, I'm astronomer Amy Mainzer.

Now imagine going on a road trip

that lasts for decades and decades

with no end in side.

NASA's Voyager and spacecraft

are the crown jewels of our fleet, so to speak,

and they've been on a road trip since ,

and they're still going.

The Voyager spacecraft were designed to visit

the outer planets in our solar system.

Both spacecraft visited Jupiter and Saturn.

The flyby of Jupiter revealed some incredible images

of its massive storms and powerful winds.

"Voyager" flew by Jupiter's moon Io.

And it also flew by Saturn's giant moon, Titan.

"Voyager " visited four planets.

Jupiter, Saturn,

Uranus,

and Neptune

in something we call the Grand Tour.

And along its way,

just as "Voyager " approached the outer reaches

of our solar system,

it captured a very special glimpse of our home, Earth,

tiny and precious, wandering through the cosmos.

So the next time you get home from a road trip,

just remember,

Voyager, one of the most amazing spacecraft ever built,

is still out there on its road trip to the stars.

[engine roars]

- Hmm. Needs more work.

And then we have to test it again.

- [yips]

- Sure, give it another try, Sunspot.

- Huh?

Whoa.

- Definitely needs more work.

- What needs more work, Jet?

- Oh, my new one-seat rocket chair

that can fly me up and around for a very short distance!

[engine roars]

I think. I hope.

We're just testing it out.

- [barks]

- Wow!

So you want to fly a short distance, like to Mars?

- [laughs] I was thinking more like your yard

or Sean's.

Just so I can get there faster.

- Cool!

Then maybe you can fly it over to my house,

and we can watch the new

"Commander Cressida" episode together?

Remember?

We made a plan for right now!

- I remember!

♪ Commander Cressida ♪

♪ She is the best of the ♪

♪ Something something ♪

[humming]

- Wait.

Jet, we also have a plan for right now.

You're going to help put up the solar system lights

in my backyard.

Remember?

- Oh, right, I remember.

And even though the rocket chair isn't ready yet,

I can still come over to your house, Sean.

Uh-oh.

I think I just said I'd be in two places

at the same time.

- And there's only one of you.

That's a problem, Jet. What are you going to do?

- No one, not even an alien, can be at two places at once.

- Never say "no one,"

'Cause I've been working on another project

that might just help us now.

Be right back.

- Mmm, healthy snacks. Thanks, Sunspot.

- [clears throat] Introducing...

Drum roll, please!

My robot!

[both gasp]

It rolls!

It hears!

It sees!

It talks, kind of.

And its arms mostly work.

He's Jet !

Now I can be two places at once!

- But he doesn't really look like you, Jet.

[all laugh]

- That's better. So now there's two of me!

Sort of.

- But can robots really do the same things as people?

Hello, Jet .

- Hello. Yes.

[together] Awesome.

- How did you build it, Jet?

- It was easy as cake.

- You mean, easy as pie.

- Some dessert item.

Anyway, I made it out of odds and ends

from my pile of junk in the garage.

- Incredible. How did you do that?

- Well...

Sunspot helped me; he was there.

- [yips]

- So we started building Jet

by attaching wheels to some metal tubes for legs.

Then we connected its body to the legs.

Then we put a battery into its body,

an actuator--that's a fancy name for a motor.

It makes the robot move.

- Cool.

- Then we ate sandwiches.

Oh, and cookies.

We made the robot head and gave it a brain,

a small computer motor.

We gave it plastic cameras for eyes.

- So Jet has a brain?

- Hello. Yes.

[both laugh]

- You had to program the robot's brain, right?

- What's "program" a brain mean?

- My mom told me programming means putting instructions

into a robot's brain so it'll do things you want it to do.

Simple things, like walk and talk.

- Yeah!

I did program Jet to do those things.

And play with you and Sydney.

- [yips] - Oh, and Sunspot.

So that's how we made Jet .

- But can a robot really do everything a person can do?

- Yeah, are robots the same as people?

- That's what we're gonna find out, Sydney!

[adventurous music plays]

- Oops, it's time!

The new "Commander Cressida" episode

starts in five minutes!

Let's test the robot!

Jet , you want to come watch it with me?

- Hello. Yes.

- [laughs] Yes, come on!

- Maybe I can hang out with Jet later.

- Okay, bye, guys. This way, Jet .

So, Commander Cressida is this cool space explorer

who's commander of a spaceship with of a bunch of friends.

She's super nice, but tough.

She's a real leader.

- Ha. Ha ha ha ha ha.

Yes. Hello.

- Okay, Jet .

Let's go hang up my solar system lights.

- Come on, Sunspot!

Sunspot.

- [yips]

[sniffing]

- [chuckles]

[monotone] This is very cool.

All the planets and Sunspot's nose are lit up.

- [laughs]

Good robot voice.

I wonder if Sydney is having a good time with Jet .

- Okay, General Robot. It's go-time!

- Hello. Yes.

Play. Ha ha ha ha.

- [laughs] This is so much fun.

You're awesome, Jet !

- Wow, sounds like Sydney's having a great time with Jet .

- Yeah.

- Okay, let's get back to testing that rocket-chair, Sean.

- Hey, Sean, would you hand me that screwdriver?

Wait, I've got one.

- Ha ha ha ha ha. Yes.

- Hey, guys.

I'm gonna go show Jet the tree house.

- Cool, I'll come with you.

- Oh, really?

I was hoping you'd help me finish the rocket chair.

- Okay, it won't take us long.

We'll just show Jet the tree house.

We'll be back in a minute.

- Want to come with us, Jet?

- No, I'm fine. Enjoy the tree house.

- Hello. Yes.

Ha ha. Ha ha.

- [sighs]

- Jet?

Oh, sorry--wait, is-- is that you or Jet ?

I have such a hard time telling you guys apart.

- [chuckles nervously]

It's me. Your kid, Jet .

The one that doesn't have a metal head and wheels.

- Oh, I see that now. Hi!

I'll be here, but your dad is going to the store

for dinner items: macaroni and cold liver.

It's a new recipe. Yum!

- Okay, Mom. I'll be out here.

- Why are you playing all alone, Jet?

- I'm not alone. Sunspot's here.

Sunspot? Hey, Sunspot?

[sighs]

Well, I won't be alone for long.

Sydney and Sean will be right back.

Jet is taking my place in the tree house while I'm here.

- Oh, right. I heard about your robot.

Jet is the same as you, right?

- No, he's not the same as me!

I programmed him, so he's kind of like me, just not exactly.

Okay, stand back!

[engine roars]

- Mmm...

I wouldn't be happy if my friends

were playing with a robot of me instead of me.

I'd be jealous.

- What does jealous mean? Is that some kind of jelly?

- [giggles] No, silly.

Being jealous is feeling bad about

being left out of something fun,

or wanting something that somebody else has.

- Huh.

Maybe I am a little jealous that Sean and Sydney

took Jet to the tree house instead of staying here with me.

- Can't you make Jet do whatever you want?

You built him, right?

So make the robot not play with Sean and Sydney.

- Hi, Jet!

Is the rocket-chair ready?

I can't wait to see it take off.

- Yeah, but before we launch it,

I wanted to tell you something

that Mindy just taught me.

It's called "being jealous."

- You're jealous?

- I was. I am.

I didn't know what I was feeling

when you went to the tree house with Jet

instead of the real me.

But now I know.

- Oh. Oh, no, Jet.

We're really sorry.

We didn't hang out with Jet to make you feel jealous.

- Yeah, you're our friend.

- Forever.

We know that Jet is just a robot you built.

He's no substitute for the real you.

- Yeah, the real, actual Jet .

All this one says is "Hello. Yes. Play."

And he laughs.

It's kind of boring after a while.

I mean, no offense, Jet .

- Hello. Yes.

Play. Ha ha, ha ha.

- [laughs] Well, thanks, guys.

I just wanted us to hang out together.

I guess I can't be in two places at once.

'Cause there's only one real me.

I can program Jet to do a few things, but not very much.

- Mmm...yeah.

I don't think Jet can do the footie dance I made up today.

[humming]

[all humming]

- Hello. Yes.

Play. Hello. Yes.

Play. Play. Play. Play.

- Don't break the rocket chair, Jet !

- Play.

- Hey.

I just thought of the perfect one to test the rocket chair!

all: Five, four, three, two, one!

Ready! Jet ! Go!

Wow!

- [laughs] That worked great!

Okay, what should we do now?

- Uh, Jet, shouldn't we find your robot?

- Huh? Oh, he can find his way back.

- Jet, are you being jealous?

- Me? Jealous?

No!

Well, all right, I guess maybe I was being jealous.

I did just sh**t Jet out of the yard.

- We should go find your robot.

- Right. Let's find him.

Excelsior!

- Jet ! Where are you?

- This way! - There's Jet !

[machinery humming]

- [beeping and warbling]

- Huh.

Beep says that for a robot, Jet has a lot to learn.

- [beeping and warbling]

- Okay, Jet , time to go home. Thanks, Beep!

all: Bye, Beep!

- Are you re-programming your robot, Jet?

- Yup!

I turned it into what it can do best:

be my garage assistant!

Robot, please make our friends a small circle of dough.

With colorful sprinkles.

- You mean, a donut?

- Donut? [laughs]

Another hilarious Earth word.

- Play. Hello.

Ha ha ha ha. Hello.

- A robot that serves donuts?

That's more like it.

- Play. Play. Hello.

Ha ha. Donut.

all: Mmm!

- Play. Hello.

Ha ha. Ha ha. Donut.

- Hi, I'm astronomer Amy Mainzer.

And this is Dr. Ken Phillips, the curator of Aerospace Science

at the California science center.

And this, this is "Endeavour."

"Endeavour" is one of five space shuttles

that were used for almost years

to take astronauts into space.

The space shuttle's really big, about feet long.

But about half of that that is for what's called payload.

But what exactly is that?

Payload's the stuff we're trying to put in space, is that right?

- So it could be a component or part of

the international space station.

It could be experiments that people want to take to space,

like, you know, does a spider spin a nice, symmetrical web?

- That's a great question. - Yeah.

You would put one of those experiments

or a bunch into the payload bay,

that's where you carry the cargo.

You would take them to space,

you'd do your experiment and you'd bring them back.

- So the payload bay is kind of like the trunk of your car.

That's where you throw all your stuff

when you're trying to get somewhere.

- Payload bay is exactly the size of a school bus.

- A school bus fits inside this space shuttle?

- It does indeed.

- Did they ever launch a school bus?

- No, they didn't. [laughs]

With a bunch of kids in it, no.

No, they never launched a school bus,

but you can imagine what volume--

And when I say volume, what do I mean?

- How big something is, how much space it can take up.

- And that meant it was very versatile,

meaning that it could do many different things.

- So the next time you get on a school bus,

you can imagine it fitting perfectly

into the payload bay of this shuttle

and blasting off for adventures in space.

- ♪ Commander Cressida ♪

♪ She is the best of the galactic astronauts ♪

♪ There's nothing she cannot ♪

♪ Commander Cressida ♪

♪ She's from the moons of Mars ♪

♪ Her boots are on the ground ♪

♪ Her head is in the stars ♪

♪ Fearless and curious with her space dog Sirius ♪

♪ Always in the chase ♪

♪ They'll surely win the race ♪

♪ 'Cause a kid's place is exploring space! ♪