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what's up for november venus in the

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morning gas giants in the evening and

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meteors after midnight

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hello and welcome i'm jane houston jones

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at nasa's jet propulsion laboratory in

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pasadena

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california if your skies are clear this

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month you're in for some real treats

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venus is up first literally

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start looking for our nearest planetary

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neighbor just before dawn

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you'll be treated to a very slender

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crescent

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minutes before dawn first venus and then

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the moon

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by the 15th the crescent venus widens to

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10 percent of the planet's disk and by

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month end it's 25 lit

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galileo captured sketches of the changes

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in the appearance of venus 400 years ago

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jupiter reigns supreme again in november

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you can really see the light and dark

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bands of clouds on the planet

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uranus and neptune are both easy to see

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comets are storytellers preserving the

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stuff from which our solar system's

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november 4th marks the epoxy

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last month offered the best time to view

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the bright and slow torrid meteor shower

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peaks the first two weeks of november

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you'll only see about five of the

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distinctive turrets per hour

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november's more famous shower is the

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leonids

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17th and 18th

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wait until the moon sets in the hours

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before dawn for your best chance of

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nasa's year of the solar system missions

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will shed light on our solar system

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family's birth story

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the cassini solstice mission is making

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new discoveries about the mini solar

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system at saturn complete with a disk of

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rings and moons orbiting the dynamic gas

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giant

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juno launches in 2011 and will seek to

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understand the origin and evolution of

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jupiter

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learn more about this month's year of

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the solar system resources at

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solarsystem.nasa.gov

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yss and you can learn all about nasa's

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missions at www.nasa.gov