Magnetospheric MultiScale

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The Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission is a Solar Terrestrial Probes mission comprising 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.

Author/Origin: Walt Feimer, Conceptual Image Lab, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center