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what's up for october

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the solar system you can see and a skill

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model you can make hello and welcome 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

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this month we begin a year of the solar

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system celebration exploring new worlds

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and new discoveries we'll celebrate the

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amazing discoveries of nasa missions as

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they explore our near and distant

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neighbors and probe the very outer edges

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of our solar system

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how many solar system objects can you

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see this month

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october is prime jupiter season

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through a small telescope you can see

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cloud bands and four moons

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you can see even more detail through

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larger instruments

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near jupiter you can spark uranus

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they look close together but uranus is

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really 1.4 million miles farther away

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we say goodbye to venus in the evening

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sky as it slips around the sun and

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prepares to appear in the morning sky

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saturn peaks out at dawn this month

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mars and mercury are difficult to

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impossible to see this month

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which solar system objects have we left

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out

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earth

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features found on other solar system

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bodies

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clouds

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lakes

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mountains and valleys

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you can view our sun safely through

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solar safe telescopes but never look

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directly at the sun or you'll hurt your

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eyes

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the moon is visible in our sky all month

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long

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the moon appears above jupiter at dusk

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on october 19th

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a few days later on the 22nd the bright

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moon will wash out the meteors of the

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one special comet is visible this month

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through binoculars or telescopes it

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might even be visible to the unaided eye

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it's called comet 103p hartley 2 or just

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hartley 2 for short

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it should be easy to spot passing

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through the constellations auriga and

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gemini this month

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nasa's deep impact spacecraft on its

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extended mission will fly by this comet

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in november

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here's an image the spacecraft took 60

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days before its encounter

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you can make your own scale model of the

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solar system

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all you need is a string and some beads

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to mark the planets

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and here's where you can get a guide for

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to learn more about all of nasa's