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what's up for April the moon Mars and

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Saturn and the Lyrid meteor shower hello

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and welcome I'm Jane Houston Jones from

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NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in

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Pasadena California you won't want to

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miss red Mars and gold and Saturn in the

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south-southeast morning skies this month

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Marsh shines a little brighter than last

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month by the seventh the moon joins the

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pair from a dark sky you may see some

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glow from the nearby Milky Way mid month

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start looking for Liron meteors which

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are active from April 14th through the

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30th they peak on the 22nd in the early

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morning sky a patient observer will see

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up to more than a dozen meteors per hour

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in this medium strength shower with 18

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meteors per hour calculated for the peak

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us observers should see good rates on

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the nights before and after this peak a

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bright first quarter moon plays havoc

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with sky conditions marring most of the

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typically faint Lyrid meteors but Lyra

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will be high overhead after the moon

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sets at midnight so that's the best time

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to look for Lyrids

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through a telescope Jupiter's cloud

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belts and zones are easy to see and

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watch the Great Red Spot transit or

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cross the visible earth-facing disk of

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Jupiter every eight hours the Juno

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spacecraft continues to orbit Jupiter

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and Juno Juno camp citizen science team

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is creating exciting images of Jupiter's

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features based on the latest spacecraft

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data next month Jupiter is that

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opposition when it rises at sunset sets

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at sunrise and offers great views for

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several months you can catch up on solar

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system missions to Jupiter like Juno and

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all of NASA's missions at www.nasa.gov

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that's all for this month I'm Jane