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Monisha Ravisetti

2 NASA missions will carpool on a SpaceX rocket this weekend to help map the cosmos

On the left, an animation showing the SPHEREx structure. On the right, the PUNCH structure.

Sunday (March 2) is shaping up to be a delightful day for space explorers, as not one but two major NASA missions are expected to take to the skies — and interestingly, though the spacecraft associated with these missions are pretty different from one another, you might say they all have the same profession: cosmic cartography.

Cartographer one, named PUNCH, will map the sun's dynamics, while cartographer two, named SPHEREx, will kind of map the rest of the universe.

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