NASA Skywatching Tips: March 2025 includes a Total Lunar Eclipse, and launch of SPHEREx, NASA’s newest telescope

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Last Updated on March 3, 2025 by Cass County Communication Network

Here’s an update from our local Solar System Ambassador Pam Roller:

Credits: NASA/JPL, Preston Dyches

March has great opportunities to spy fast-moving Mercury, stay up late to enjoy a total eclipse of the Moon the late evening on March 13th and into March 14th, and learn about the dark side of the Moon!

Touchdown! Carrying NASA Science, Firefly’s Blue Ghost Lands on Moon

Credits: NASA Headquarters, Tiernan P, Doyle, Firefly Aerospace

SPHEREx Launch is targeted for March 4th at 9:15 p.m.

Credit: NASA, will Stream on NASA+

Live coverage of the launch for SPHEREx, the agency’s newest telescope and its rideshare PUNCH, a mission to study the Sun’s solar wind.

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