NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission to provide first 3-D view of Earth's magnetic reconnection process
Thursday, May 15, 2014 - 08:30
in Astronomy & Space
NASA's upcoming Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission is comprised of a quartet of identically instrumented observatories aimed at providing the first three-dimensional views of a fundamental process in nature known as magnetic reconnection. They were unveiled to greet NASA Administrator Charles Bolden on Monday, May 12, in a rare fully stacked arrangement inside the Goddard clean room.