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what's up for April Saturn hello and

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welcome I'm Jane Houston Jones at NASA's

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Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena

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California Saturn reaches opposition on

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April fourth this is when Saturn and the

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Sun are on opposite sides of the sky as

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seen from Earth at opposition the planet

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Rises of sunset and sets at sunrise it's

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also physically closest to the earth in

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its orbit so it appears larger and

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brighter in fact this month it's the

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only bright planet you'll see at night

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to find Saturn look for the Big Dipper

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use the handle to make an arc to the

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star Arcturus then draw a spike to Spica

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and you'll see Saturn glowing a pale

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golden color just above Spica if you

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haven't looked at Saturn through a

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telescope you're in for a real treat

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last year the Rings appeared nearly

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edge-on but this year you can actually

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see them as the ring tilt from our point

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of view approaches ten percent

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the Cassini spacecraft has been studying

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the Saturn system for almost seven years

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sending back data and amazing images of

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the Rings icy moons Saturn's

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last year amateur astronomers turned

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citizen scientists aimed their

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astrophotography equipment at Saturn and

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discovered a new storm the next day they

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sent their images to Cassini scientists

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and Cassini's instruments studied the

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storm to when you look at Saturn through

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a telescope you may catch a glimpse of

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the storms whitish cloud bands circling

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the planet you'll see some of the larger

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moons and maybe even small bright and

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syllabus but you won't be able to see

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the spewing geysers on Enceladus you can

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read all about Enceladus and other

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sources of water in our solar system at

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solar system NASA gov / yss per year of

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the solar system

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and you can learn all about NASA's