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[
How to Watch March 8 SPHEREx Launch
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Launching: SPHEREx .
[
6 Things to Know About SPHEREx
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Launching: SPHEREx .
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Follow the SPHEREx Blog for Mission Updates
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Launching: SPHEREx .
[
Why NASA’s SPHEREx Mission Will Make ‘Most Colorful’ Cosmic Map Ever
](/news/why-nasas-spherex-mission-will-make-most-colorful-cosmic-map-ever/)
Launching: SPHEREx .
[
NASA’s SPHEREx Space Telescope Will Seek Life’s Ingredients
](/news/nasas-spherex-space-telescope-will-seek-lifes-ingredients/)
[How to Watch March 8 SPHEREx Launch](/news/nasa-sets-launch-coverage-for-missions-studying-cosmic-origins-sun/)
[6 Things to Know About SPHEREx](/news/6-things-to-know-about-spherex-nasas-newest-space-telescope/)
[Follow the SPHEREx Blog for Mission Updates](https://blogs.nasa.gov/spherex/)
[Why NASA’s SPHEREx Mission Will Make ‘Most Colorful’ Cosmic Map Ever](/news/why-nasas-spherex-mission-will-make-most-colorful-cosmic-map-ever/)
[NASA’s SPHEREx Space Telescope Will Seek Life’s Ingredients](/news/nasas-spherex-space-telescope-will-seek-lifes-ingredients/)
[How to Watch March 8 SPHEREx Launch](/news/nasa-sets-launch-coverage-for-missions-studying-cosmic-origins-sun/)
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Parker Solar Probe is sending to Madrid. MadridParker Solar Probe is receiving from Madrid.
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Next close approach (safe)
March 7, 2025
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Proximity 278,000
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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Have you been awed by views of desolate Martian Valleys, swirling storms above Jupiter, and the icy blades ringing Saturn? Then you have journeyed with NASA JPL spacecraft and rovers.
Our missions have flown to every planet and the Sun in a quest to understand our place in the universe, and to search for the possibility of life beyond Earth.
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