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what's up for December a mission recap

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and lots of planets to view 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 NASA's Juno spacecraft which

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launched in August will arrive at

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Jupiter in 2016

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Juno will map the giant planets magnetic

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field and help us better understand the

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strange material scientists think

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Jupiter's magnetic field is generated by

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an ocean of liquid metallic hydrogen

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hidden within the planet metallic

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hydrogen is hydrogen gas compressed so

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much by gravity that it becomes an

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electrically conductive liquid NASA's

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twin grail spacecraft launched on a

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three-month journey to the moon in

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September grey of a will enter lunar

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orbit on New Year's Eve and Grail B will

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follow the next day then they'll spend

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about two months reshaping and merging

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their orbits until one spacecraft is

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following the other in the same low

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altitude near circular near polar orbit

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and they begin formation flying NASA's

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Dawn mission is using its ion propulsion

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system to lower its orbital altitude a

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new framing camera image is dominated by

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bright raid craters of different sizes

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and NASA's Mars Science Laboratory and

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its rover named curiosity are on their

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way to Mars after a successful launch in

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through a small telescope you may be

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able to see some markings on Mars but

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this year and next just aren't good for

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Mars viewing Venus climbs higher in the

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southwest sky after sunset Jupiter

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continues to shine all night long

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while Mars rises in the late evening you

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can even catch Saturn a few hours before

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dawn and mercury just at dawn there's an

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eclipse this month - on December 10th

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observers in Asia Australia and on the

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Pacific coast of the US will get to see

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a total lunar eclipse from the west

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coast the Eclipse is visible from 606

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until 647 a.m. just before the moon sets

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at 7:17 you can learn about the planets

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at solarsystem.nasa.gov and you can

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learn about all of NASA's missions at