NASA's MMS formation will give unique look at magnetic reconnection
Wednesday, July 29, 2015 - 16:30
in Astronomy & Space
On July 9, 2015 the four spacecraft of NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale, or MMS, mission began flying in a pyramid shape for the first time. The four-sided pyramid shape—called a tetrahedron—means that scientists' observations will be spread out over three dimensions.