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            "description": "This short video outlines the MMS mission and its first results. Since it launched, MMS has made more than 4,000 trips through the magnetic boundaries around Earth, each time gathering information about the way the magnetic fields and particles move. A surprising result was that at the moment of interconnection between the sun’s magnetic field lines and those of Earth the crescents turned abruptly so that the electrons flowed along the field lines. By watching these electron tracers, MMS made the first observation of the predicted breaking and interconnection of magnetic fields in space. Credit: NASA/GSFCWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel. || mmsthumb.jpg (1280x720) [139.4 KB] || mmsthumb_print.jpg (1024x576) [161.8 KB] || mmsthumb_searchweb.png (320x180) [104.3 KB] || mmsthumb_web.png (320x180) [104.3 KB] || mmsthumb_thm.png (80x40) [6.8 KB] || 12239_MMS_First_ResultsV2_appletv.m4v (1280x720) [76.9 MB] || 12239_MMS_First_ResultsV2.webm (1920x1080) [18.1 MB] || 12239_MMS_First_ResultsV2_appletv_subtitles.m4v (1280x720) [77.0 MB] || 12239_MMS_First_ResultsV2.en_US.srt [3.0 KB] || 12239_MMS_First_ResultsV2.en_US.vtt [3.0 KB] || YOUTUBE_HQ_12239_MMS_First_ResultsV2_youtube_hq.mov (1920x1080) [1.1 GB] || 12239_MMS_First_ResultsV2_lowres.mp4 (480x272) [21.6 MB] || 12239_MMS_First_ResultsV2_ipod_sm.mp4 (320x240) [26.3 MB] || PRORES_B-ROLL_12239_MMS_First_ResultsV2_prores.mov (1280x720) [2.2 GB] || 12239_MMS_First_ResultsV2.mov (1920x1080) [4.2 GB] || YOUTUBE_HQ_12239_MMS_First_ResultsV2_youtube_hq.mov.hwshow [100 bytes] || ",
            "release_date": "2016-05-12T13:00:00-04:00",
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                "alt_text": "This numerical simulation represents the event observed with MMS.  It shows magnetic field lines in black with the background color denoting the electric current density directed out of the plane.  Red regions have stronger electric currents.  The breaking of magnetic fields in these high current regions is magnetic reconnection.  In the event observed by MMS, Earth would be to the left and the Sun would be far to the right.  The spacecraft crossed through the region where reconnection occurs in the vertical direction.  The movie is courtesy of Paul Cassak, Department of Physics and Astronomy, West Virginia University, with input from Tai Phan (Berkeley), Jim Burch (SwRI), and Jerry Goldstein (SwRI).  The movie was made using computational resources from the National Energy Research Scientific Computing (NERSC) Center, a Department of Energy user facility.",
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            "page_type": "Animation",
            "title": "MMS front side reconnection",
            "description": "This animation show the MMS spacecraft transiting through a reconnection event on the front side of Earth. || MMS frontside reconnection animation || recon_59_94_264_print.jpg (1024x576) [125.4 KB] || recon_30fps_422.webm (1920x1080) [1.7 MB] || recon_30fps_422.mov (1920x1080) [251.4 MB] || recon_59_94_422.mov (1920x1080) [501.3 MB] || recon_59_94_264.mov (1920x1080) [585.0 MB] || mms-front-side-reconnection-animation.hwshow [289 bytes] || ",
            "release_date": "2015-03-06T00:00:00-05:00",
            "update_date": "2024-10-10T00:17:43.152013-04:00",
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