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what's up for October this month I'll

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tell you some tricks and some treats

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that you can see in the night sky I'm

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Jane Houston Jones at NASA's Jet

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Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena

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California one of the tricks of October

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is to see Saturn's moon Iapetus Iapetus

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is a really cool moon it's the third

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largest moon of Saturn and it has one

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hemisphere that's bright as snow and the

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other half is as dark as coal Cassini

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flew by so that it could see the borders

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between the dark part and the light part

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and investigate this weird mountain

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range that seems to go right along the

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equator of the moon Iapetus is tricky to

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see because most people don't know where

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to look to see it but on October 13th

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and for the week on either side of

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October 13th you'll be able to look to

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the south of Saturn and see a little

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moon there you have to get up before

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dawn it'll look like a star you'll

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definitely need a telescope pretty much

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any medium size telescope if you're up

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early looking at Iapetus and Saturn

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you'll get a treat you'll also see Venus

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in the same part of the sky there's a

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lot more in store for those

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trick-or-treaters at the end of the

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month the early trick-or-treaters will

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probably get to see the planet Jupiter

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low on the western horizon that will be

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in the early part of the evening right

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oh right after sunset but for the later

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trick-or-treaters they'll be able to see

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Mars and just in time for Halloween it's

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the pumpkin colored object in the sky we

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call it the red planet because it has a

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lot of reddish colors on it but when we

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look at it with our eyes and through a

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telescope it actually looks a little

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more orange October is the beginning of

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the great crescendo of viewing Mars and

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it's just going to get better and better

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over the next few months you can get our

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sky charts and other resources at

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education JPL nasa gov

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just click on the what's up button you

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can learn all about NASA's missions at