The Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission is comprised of four
identically instrumented spacecraft that will use Earth’s magnetosphere
as a laboratory to study the microphysics of three fundamental plasma
processes: magnetic reconnection, energetic particle acceleration, and
turbulence. These processes occur in all astrophysical plasma systems
but can be studied only in our solar system and most efficiently
only in Earth’s magnetosphere, where they control the dynamics of the
geospace environment and play an important role in the processes known
as “space weather.”
Click the Countdown clock to see the MMS Launch Countdown
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