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            "title": "NASA’s TRACERS Mission Launches to Study Earth’s Magnetic Shield",
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            "title": "Quickshot: New NASA Mission Launching Soon To Study Earth’s Space Weather Shield",
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            "title": "TRACERS through Earth's Polar Cusps",
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            "title": "NASA’s TRACERS Studies Magnetic Explosions Above Earth",
            "description": "NASA's TRACERS mission, or the Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites, will fly in low Earth orbit through the polar cusps, funnel-shaped holes in the magnetic field, to study magnetic reconnection and its effects in Earth's atmosphere. Magnetic reconnection is a mysterious process that happens when the solar wind, made of electrically charged particles and magnetic fields from the Sun, collides with Earth's magnetic shield, causing magnetic field lines to violently snap and explosively fling away particles at high speeds. This process has huge impacts on Earth, from causing breathtaking auroras to disrupting communications and power grids on Earth. TRACERS is launching no earlier than summer 2025 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.Find out more about the TRACERS mission and how it will help us better understand the ways space weather affects us on Earth: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/tracers/ || ",
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            "title": "TRACERS Thermal Vacuum Testing at Millennium Space Systems",
            "description": "NASA’s Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites, or TRACERS, is embarking on its integration and testing campaign, during which all of the instruments and components will be added to the spacecraft structure, tested to ensure they will survive the harsh environments of launch and space, and made ready to execute its mission. The TRACERS mission will help scientists understand an explosive process called magnetic reconnection and its effects in Earth’s atmosphere. Magnetic reconnection occurs when magnetic fields and particles from the Sun interact with Earth’s magnetic field. By understanding this process, scientists will be able to better understand and prepare for impacts of solar activity on Earth, such as auroras and disruptions to telecommunications.Below are clips of Millennium Space Systems’ team members conducting Thermal Vacuum (TVAC) testing at the Boeing Space Systems Laboratory in El Segundo, California.Learn more about the mission: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/tracers/ || ",
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            "title": "TRACERS Instrument Development & Testing at the University of Iowa",
            "description": "NASA’s Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites, or TRACERS, is embarking on its integration and testing campaign, during which all of the instruments and components will be added to the spacecraft structure, tested to ensure they will survive the harsh environments of launch and space, and made ready to execute its mission. The TRACERS mission will help scientists understand an explosive process called magnetic reconnection and its effects in Earth’s atmosphere. Magnetic reconnection occurs when magnetic fields and particles from the Sun interact with Earth’s magnetic field. By understanding this process, scientists will be able to better understand and prepare for impacts of solar activity on Earth, such as auroras and disruptions to telecommunications.Below are clips of TRACERS’ instrument design, build, and testing at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa.Learn more about the mission: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/tracers/ || ",
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            "title": "TRACERS Testing & Integration at Millennium Space Systems",
            "description": "NASA’s Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites, or TRACERS, is embarking on its integration and testing campaign, during which all of the instruments and components will be added to the spacecraft structure, tested to ensure they will survive the harsh environments of launch and space, and made ready to execute its mission. The TRACERS mission will help scientists understand an explosive process called magnetic reconnection and its effects in Earth’s atmosphere. Magnetic reconnection occurs when magnetic fields and particles from the Sun interact with Earth’s magnetic field. By understanding this process, scientists will be able to better understand and prepare for impacts of solar activity on Earth, such as auroras and disruptions to telecommunications.Below are clips of TRACERS’ testing and integration at the Millennium Space Systems Small Satellite Factory in El Segundo, California. Learn more about the mission: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/tracers/ || ",
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            "title": "TRACERS Spacecraft Beauty Passes",
            "description": "The TRACERS, or the Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites, mission will help scientists understand an explosive process called magnetic reconnection and its effects in Earth’s atmosphere. Magnetic reconnection occurs when magnetic fields and particles from the Sun interact with Earth’s magnetic field. By understanding this process, scientists will be able to better understand and prepare for impacts of solar activity on Earth, such as auroras and disruptions to telecommunications.Learn more about the mission: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/tracers/ || ",
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            "title": "EZIE – Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer",
            "description": "Slated to launch in 2025, NASA’s Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer (EZIE) will be the first mission to image the magnetic fingerprint of the auroral electrojets — intense electric currents flowing high above Earth’s poles that are central to the electrical circuit coupling the planet’s magnetosphere to its atmosphere.Led by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), EZIE will use a trio of small satellites to characterize and record the electrojets’ structure over space and time. It will fill gaps in our understanding of this space weather phenomenon and provide findings that scientists can apply to other magnetized planets, both within and outside our solar system.Learn more:https://science.nasa.gov/mission/ezie/ || ",
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            "release_date": "2023-03-10T10:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "What is Plasma?",
            "description": "Plasma makes up 99.9% of the visible universe, but what is it? This video discusses what plasma is, where it lives, and how NASA studies it. || ",
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            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2022-04-28T11:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Fast Magnetic Reconnection and the Hall Effect",
            "description": "Magnetic reconnection is one of the most complex processes known for converting energy from magnetic fields to particle motion.  It takes place in solar flares and regions of planetary (and stellar) magnetospheres.  Having been studied since the 1950s, many details of the process are still undergoing study.One of the key components in magnetic reconnection is the collision of two magnetic field regions with opposite-directed field lines, imbedded in a plasma.  The field and plasma combination forms an X-shaped configuration at their closest, and most intense point.These visualizations are plotted from a reconnection model generated by VPIC (Vector Particle-In-Cell) code.  Quantities are plotted in 'dimensionless' coordinates, that are normalized to the ion inertial length (di). || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20310/",
            "result_type": "Animation",
            "release_date": "2020-03-12T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Magnetic Reconnection Throughout the Solar System",
            "description": "Magnetic reconnection at a black hole (fast version) || Blackhole_Sequence_Fast_h264.00288_print.jpg (1024x576) [79.8 KB] || Blackhole_Sequence_Fast_h264.00288_searchweb.png (320x180) [72.4 KB] || Blackhole_Sequence_Fast_h264.00288_thm.png (80x40) [5.0 KB] || Blackhole_Sequence_Fast_h264.mov (3840x2160) [46.2 MB] || Blackhole_Sequence_Fast_h264.webm (3840x2160) [4.6 MB] || blackhole_fast (3840x2160) [0 Item(s)] || Blackhole_Sequence_v04_2160p30.mp4 (3840x2160) [29.9 MB] || Blackhole_Sequence_Fast.mov (3840x2160) [891.0 MB] || ",
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            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2019-12-20T17:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "Solar Wind Interacting with Earth's Magnetic Field",
            "description": "A conceptual animation showing solar wind interacting with Earth's magnetic field and causing atmospheric loss at the polar cusps. || YOUTUBE_1080_13506_Atmospheric_Escape_youtube_1080.00001_print.jpg (1024x576) [77.5 KB] || YOUTUBE_1080_13506_Atmospheric_Escape_youtube_1080.00001_searchweb.png (320x180) [74.4 KB] || YOUTUBE_1080_13506_Atmospheric_Escape_youtube_1080.00001_web.png (320x180) [74.4 KB] || YOUTUBE_1080_13506_Atmospheric_Escape_youtube_1080.00001_thm.png (80x40) [6.3 KB] || YOUTUBE_1080_13506_Atmospheric_Escape_youtube_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [43.1 MB] || FACEBOOK_720_13506_Atmospheric_Escape_facebook_720.mp4 (1280x720) [32.8 MB] || TWITTER_720_13506_Atmospheric_Escape_twitter_720.mp4 (1280x720) [5.7 MB] || FACEBOOK_720_13506_Atmospheric_Escape_facebook_720.webm (1280x720) [3.0 MB] || PRORES_B-ROLL_13506_Atmospheric_Escape_prores_b-roll.mov (1280x720) [227.8 MB] || YOUTUBE_4K_13506_Atmospheric_Escape_youtube_4k.mp4 (3840x2160) [187.6 MB] || 13506_Atmospheric_Escape_Prores.mov (3840x2160) [2.4 GB] || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4761/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2019-12-17T10:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "New sites for magnetic reconnection",
            "description": "HD and UHD movie views of the plasma flowing along magnetic fields lines visible at 171Å. || May2012_Reconn_171A_stand.HD1080i.00951_print.jpg (1024x576) [52.0 KB] || May2012_Reconn_171A_stand.HD1080i.00951_searchweb.png (320x180) [43.5 KB] || May2012_Reconn_171A_stand.HD1080i.00951_thm.png (80x40) [4.2 KB] || AIA171A (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || May2012_Reconn_171A.HD1080i_p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [21.9 MB] || May2012_Reconn_171A.HD1080i_p30.webm (1920x1080) [7.0 MB] || AIA171A (3840x2160) [0 Item(s)] || May2012_Reconn_171A_2160p30.mp4 (3840x2160) [107.3 MB] || May2012_Reconn_171A.HD1080i_p30.mp4.hwshow [197 bytes] || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13422/",
            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2019-12-17T10:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "A New Kind of Explosion on the Sun",
            "description": "Complete transcript available.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Music Credit: Light Hearted Angst by Dewey Dellay || ReconnThumb.jpg (1920x1080) [156.1 KB] || ReconnThumb_searchweb.png (320x180) [100.6 KB] || ReconnThumb_thm.png (80x40) [7.3 KB] || ForcedReconnV2_Twitter.mp4 (1920x1080) [29.6 MB] || ForcedReconnV2.webm (1920x1080) [14.8 MB] || ForcedReconnV2.mp4 (1920x1080) [134.9 MB] || ForcedReconnV2_FB.mp4 (1920x1080) [155.5 MB] || ForcedReconnV2_YouTube.mp4 (1920x1080) [207.3 MB] || ForcedReconnV2.en_US.srt [2.6 KB] || ForcedReconnV2.en_US.vtt [2.6 KB] || ForcedReconnV2.mov (1920x1080) [1.7 GB] || ",
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        {
            "id": 4639,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4639/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2018-05-09T13:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "MMS Sees a New Type of Reconnection",
            "description": "The Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission consists of four identical satellites that traverse various regions of Earth's magnetosphere measuring the particles and electric and magnetic field which influence them.In the turbulent plasma between Earth's magnetopause and bow shock, a region called the magnetosheath, the MMS satellite constellation has measured multiple jets of energetic electrons between magnetic bubbles.  This appears to be a new 'flavor' of magnetic reconnection based on electrons and occuring on smaller time and spatial scales than the standard model of magnetic reconnection with ions.In these data visualizations, the arrows represent the data collected by the spacecraft.  To better comprehend changes as the spacecraft moves along, the data are allowed to 'echo' along the spacecraft trail.  The length of the vectors represent the relative magnitude of the vector.  However, the electron and proton vectors are scaled so equal velocities correspond to vectors of equal magnitude.Magenta represents the direction and magnitude of the magnetic field at the spacecraft position.Green represents the direction and magnitude of the net electric current created by the motion of the electrons and ions measured at the spacecraft position.The four MMS spacecraft are represented by colored spheres, corresponding to the plotted data lines in the lower graphicMMS1MMS2MMS3MMS4The clocks on MMS are synchronized for the TAI (International Atomic Time) system provided through the Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites.  It provides a high-precision time reference for comparing MMS measurements to other datasets. || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12901/",
            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2018-05-09T13:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "NASA Spacecraft Finds New Magnetic Process in Turbulent Space",
            "description": "Though close to home, the space immediately around Earth is full of hidden secrets and invisible processes. In a new discovery reported in the journal Nature, scientists working with NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale spacecraft — MMS — have uncovered a new type of magnetic event in our near-Earth environment by using an innovative technique to squeeze extra information out of the data.Magnetic reconnection is one of the most important processes in the space — filled with charged particles known as plasma — around Earth. This fundamental process dissipates magnetic energy and propels charged particles, both of which contribute to a dynamic space weather system that scientists want to better understand, and even someday predict, as we do terrestrial weather.  Reconnection occurs when crossed magnetic field lines snap, explosively flinging away nearby particles at high speeds. The new discovery found reconnection where it has never been seen before — in turbulent plasma. || ",
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        {
            "id": 4228,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4228/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2017-08-11T10:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "The Little Flux Rope that Couldn't",
            "description": "HD1080 version of full disk SDO imagery in the 131 Angstrom filter. || Sept2014_FluxRope_stand.HD1080i.00400_print.jpg (1024x576) [50.9 KB] || Sept2014_FluxRope_stand.HD1080i.00400_searchweb.png (320x180) [29.8 KB] || Sept2014_FluxRope_stand.HD1080i.00400_thm.png (80x40) [2.6 KB] || 1920x1080_16x9_30p (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || Sept2014_FluxRope.HD1080i_p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [15.8 MB] || Sept2014_FluxRope.HD1080i_p30.webm (1920x1080) [3.3 MB] || Sept2014_FluxRope.HD1080i_p30.mp4.hwshow [195 bytes] || ",
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            "id": 4568,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4568/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2017-05-18T10:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Exploring Reconnection - Guide Field Off",
            "description": "This visualization shows an oblique view of the reconnection region.  Magnetic field direction is represented by the cyan lines.  The color trail represents an electron moving in the field.  Color of the particle trail represents a dimensionless speed of the particle, with blue for slow and red for fast. || GuideFieldOff_oblique_inertial.HD1080i.0300_print.jpg (1024x576) [118.2 KB] || GuideFieldOff_oblique_inertial.HD1080i.0300_searchweb.png (320x180) [70.8 KB] || GuideFieldOff_oblique_inertial.HD1080i.0300_thm.png (80x40) [4.4 KB] || GuideFieldOff_oblique (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || GuideFieldOff_oblique_inertial.HD1080i_p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [6.3 MB] || GuideFieldOff_oblique_inertial.HD1080i_p30.webm (1920x1080) [776.5 KB] || GuideFieldOff_oblique_inertial.HD1080i_p30.mp4.hwshow [208 bytes] || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4569/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2017-05-18T10:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Exploring Reconnection - Guide Field On",
            "description": "This visualization shows an oblique view of the reconnection region. Magnetic field direction is represented by the cyan lines. The color trail represents an electron moving in the field. Color of the particle trail represents a dimensionless speed of the particle, with blue for slow and red for fast. || GuideFieldOn_oblique_inertial.HD1080i.0300_print.jpg (1024x576) [129.7 KB] || GuideFieldOn_oblique_inertial.HD1080i.0300_searchweb.png (320x180) [76.2 KB] || GuideFieldOn_oblique_inertial.HD1080i.0300_thm.png (80x40) [4.6 KB] || GuideFieldOn_oblique (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || GuideFieldOn_oblique.HD1080i_p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [6.5 MB] || GuideFieldOn_oblique.HD1080i_p30.webm (1920x1080) [761.3 KB] || GuideFieldOn_oblique.HD1080i_p30.mp4.hwshow [198 bytes] || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12588/",
            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2017-04-26T13:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "A Solar Eruption in 5 Steps",
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        {
            "id": 4549,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4549/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2017-02-09T10:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "MMS Phase 2b: Transitioning to Magnetosphere Science on the Darkside",
            "description": "Visualization of the spacecraft orbit transition from apogee at the dayside magnetopause to the nightside magnetopause. || MMSPhase2b_Pole_Jan2May2017_RE_GSE.slate_GSEtour.UHD3840.3660_print.jpg (1024x576) [103.1 KB] || MMSPhase2b_Pole_Jan2May2017_RE_GSE.slate_GSEtour.UHD3840.3660_searchweb.png (320x180) [72.9 KB] || MMSPhase2b_Pole_Jan2May2017_RE_GSE.slate_GSEtour.UHD3840.3660_thm.png (80x40) [5.2 KB] || MMSPhase2b_Pole_Jan2May2017_Fast.HD1080i_p30.webm (1920x1080) [23.0 MB] || FastVersion (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || MMSPhase2b_Pole_Jan2May2017_Fast.HD1080i_p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [140.4 MB] || FastVersion (3840x2160) [0 Item(s)] || MMSPhase2b_Pole_Jan2May2017.UHD3840_2160p30.mp4 (3840x2160) [449.6 MB] || MMSPhase2b_Pole_Jan2May2017_Fast.HD1080i_p30.mp4.hwshow [210 bytes] || ",
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        {
            "id": 4453,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4453/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2016-05-12T14:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Zoom in to MMS and Magnetopause Reconnection",
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        {
            "id": 4460,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4460/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2016-05-12T14:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Data Tour of MMS and Magnetopause Reconnection",
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            "title": "MMS First Results",
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            "title": "Goddard's Speedy MMS Instruments Will Measure Mysterious Physics",
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            "title": "MMS L-2 Prelaunch News Conference",
            "description": "On March 12 from Cape Canaveral Florida, NASA is scheduled to launch the Magnetospheric Multiscale, or MMS, mission, which will provide unprecedented detail on a phenomenon called magnetic reconnection.  The process of reconnection involves the explosive release of energy when the magnetic fields around Earth connect and disconnect.  These fields help protect Earth from harmful effects of solar storms and cosmic rays.  Magnetic reconnection also occurs throughout the universe and can accelerate particles up to nearly the speed of light.By studying reconnection in this local, natural laboratory, MMS helps us understand reconnection elsewhere as well, such as in the atmosphere of the Sun and other stars, in the vicinity of black holes and neutron stars, and at the boundary between our solar system's heliosphere and interstellar space.MMS consists of four identical observatories that will provide the first three-dimensional view of magnetic reconnection. The four MMS observatories will fly through reconnection regions in a tight formation in well under a second, so key sensors on each spacecraft are designed to measure the space environment at rates faster than any previous mission.For additional visuals regarding the MMS mission and science, please see our MMS Pre-launch Gallery.Briefing participants include:Geoffrey Yoder, deputy associate administratorNASA Science Mission Directorate, WashingtonOmar Baez, NASA launch managerKennedy Space Center, FloridaVernon Thorp, program manager, NASA MissionsUnited Launch Alliance, Centennial, ColoradoCraig Tooley, NASA MMS project manager,Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MarylandJim Burch, principal investigatorSouthwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TexasClay Flinn, launch weather officer, 45th Weather SquadronCape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida || ",
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            "title": "MMS Prelaunch Press Briefing",
            "description": "On March 12 from Cape Canaveral Florida, NASA is scheduled to launch the Magnetospheric Multiscale, or MMS, mission, which will provide unprecedented detail on a phenomenon called magnetic reconnection.  The process of reconnection involves the explosive release of energy when the magnetic fields around Earth connect and disconnect.  These fields help protect Earth from harmful effects of solar storms and cosmic rays.  Magnetic reconnection also occurs throughout the universe and can accelerate particles up to nearly the speed of light.By studying reconnection in this local, natural laboratory, MMS helps us understand reconnection elsewhere as well, such as in the atmosphere of the Sun and other stars, in the vicinity of black holes and neutron stars, and at the boundary between our solar system’s heliosphere and interstellar space.MMS consists of four identical observatories that will provide the first three-dimensional view of magnetic reconnection. The four MMS observatories will fly through reconnection regions in a tight formation in well under a second, so key sensors on each spacecraft are designed to measure the space environment at rates faster than any previous mission.For additional visuals regarding the MMS mission and science, please see our MMS Pre-launch Gallery. || ",
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            "title": "MMS Science Overview: The Mysteries of MMS",
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            "release_date": "2014-11-21T00:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "MMS Launch and Deploy - Narrated",
            "description": "In March of 2015, an unprecedented NASA mission will launch to study a process so mysterious that no one has ever directly measured it in action. To create the first-ever 3-dimensional maps of this process, a process called magnetic reconnection, which occurs all over the universe, the Magnetospheric Multiscale, or MMS, mission uses four separate spacecraft equipped with ultra high speed instruments. Launching four satellites into space simultaneously is a complicated process. In addition, each spacecraft has six booms that will unfold and extend in space once in orbit. A launch and deployment with so many moving parts must be meticulously planned.  Watch the video to get a sneak preview of how MMS will make this journey: The four spacecraft are housed in a single rocket on their trip into space. One by one, each ejects out, before moving into a giant pyramid-shaped configuration. Next each spacecraft deploys its six booms. Once in orbit, MMS will fly through regions near Earth where this little-understood process of magnetic reconnection occurs. Magnetic reconnection happens in thin layers just miles thick, but can tap into enough power at times to create gigantic explosions many times the size of Earth. Reconnection happens when magnetic field lines explosively realign and release massive bursts of energy, while hurling particles out at nearly the speed of light in all directions. Magnetic reconnection powers eruptions on the sun and – closer to home – triggers the flow of material and energy from interplanetary space into near-Earth space. The MMS orbit will carry the four spacecraft through reconnection regions near Earth, using this nearby natural laboratory to better understand how reconnection occurs everywhere in space.  For more information about MMS, visit: www.nasa.gov/mms || ",
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            "release_date": "2014-05-15T01:30:00-04:00",
            "title": "MMS Mission Trailer",
            "description": "In March 2015, NASA will launch four identical spacecraft to study how magnetic fields around Earth connect and disconnect, explosively releasing energy – a process known as magnetic reconnection. The Magnetospheric Multiscale, or MMS, mission will provide the first three-dimensional views of this fundamental process that can accelerate particles to nearly the speed of light. MMS uses Earth’s protective magnetic space environment, the magnetosphere, as a natural laboratory to directly measure reconnection. Reconnection is a common processes in our universe; occurring in space near Earth, in the atmosphere of the sun and other stars, in the vicinity of black holes and neutron stars, and at virtually any boundary between space plasmas, including the boundary between our solar system's heliosphere and interstellar space. || ",
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            "title": "MMS Narrated Orbit",
            "description": "Scientist John Dorelli explains the MMS mission's orbit and why the four spacecraft fly in a tetrahedron formation. On its journey, MMS will observe a little-understood, but universal phenomenon called magnetic reconnection, responsible for dramatic re-shaping of the magnetic environment near Earth, often sending intense amounts of energy and fast-moving particles off in a new direction. Not only is this a fundamental physical process that occurs throughout the universe, it is also one of the drivers of space weather events at Earth. To truly understanding the process, requires four identical spacecraft to track how such reconnection events move across and through any given space in 3D. || ",
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            "release_date": "2014-04-18T10:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "3 Days in 1 Minute: Stacking the MMS Spacecraft",
            "description": "The Magnetospheric Multiscale, or MMS, mission stacked all four of its spacecraft in preparation for vibration testing. This time lapse shows one image every thirty seconds over three days of work. First, the spacecraft are assembled into mini-stacks, or placed on top of each other in sets of two. To create a full stack, engineers lift one mini-stack on top of another.Vibration testing simulates the conditions that the MMS spacecraft will experience during launch.MMS will study how the sun and the Earth's magnetic fields connect and disconnect, an explosive process that can accelerate particles through space to nearly the speed of light. This process is called magnetic reconnection and can occur throughout all space. || ",
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            "result_type": "Animation",
            "release_date": "2014-03-14T10:30:00-04:00",
            "title": "MMS Spacecraft Animation",
            "description": "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. These processes occur in all astrophysical plasma systems but can be studied in situ 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.”Learn more about MMS at www.nasa.gov/mms || ",
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            "title": "MMS: Engineering Challenges",
            "description": "It's hard enough to build one spacecraft, but the Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission (MMS) is building four. Together, the spacecraft will unlock the mysteries of magnetic reconnection, when magnetic fields explosively connect and disconnect, transferring energy. || ",
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            "result_type": "Visualization",
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            "title": "Reconnection Fronts - What the Models Say...",
            "description": "Mathematical models of Earth's magnetosphere have become increasingly more complex and accurate. They have sufficient detail to illustrate many small-scale phenomena.In this simulation run of the Geospace General Circulation Model (GGCM) we see new details that have been observed by in situ satellites. As the solar wind is deflected around Earth's magnetosphere (the 'bubble' of plasma surrounding Earth held by Earth's magnetic field), plasma flows within the bubble can change. In the graphics below, physical variables such as magnetic field and electric currents are plotted. With these variables, we overlay the net flow of the plasma (arrows), subjected to selection criteria to separate flows of plasma away from Earth and towards Earth. Green arrows are low-speed flows (below about 150 kilometers/second), while red arrows correspond to high-speed plasmal flows (about 300 kilometers/second and higher). || ",
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            "release_date": "2013-09-26T14:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Several NASA Spacecraft Track Energy Through Space",
            "description": "Taking advantage of an unprecedented alignment of eight satellites through the vast magnetic environment that surrounds Earth in space, including NASA's ARTEMIS and THEMIS, scientists now have comprehensive details of the energy's journey through a process that forms the aurora, called a substorm. Their results showed that small events unfolding over the course of a millisecond can result in energy flows that last up to half an hour and cover an area 10 times larger than Earth.Trying to understand how gigantic explosions on the sun can create space weather effects involves tracking energy from the original event all the way to Earth. It's not unlike keeping tabs on a character in a play with many costume changes, because the energy changes form frequently along its journey: magnetic energy causes eruptions that lead to kinetic energy as particles hurtle away, or thermal energy as the particles heat up. Near Earth, the energy can change through all these various forms once again.Most of the large and small features of substorms take place largely in the portion of Earth's magnetic environment called the magnetotail. Earth sits inside a large magnetic bubble called the magnetosphere. As Earth orbits around the sun, the solar wind from the sun streams past the bubble, stretching it outward into a teardrop. The magnetotail is the long point of the teardrop trailing out to more than 1 million miles on the night side of Earth. The moon orbits Earth much closer, some 240,000 miles away, crossing in and out of the magnetotail. || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4049/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2013-07-15T10:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "'X' Marks the Spot: SDO Observes a Reconnection Event",
            "description": "This is the source data material for the main release of X Marks the Spot: SDO Sees Reconnection.Frames were generated using the standard SDO AIA 131 Å color table and an enhanced version to reveal the finer details of the coronal loops, which are overly saturated in the standard color table ranges. || ",
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            "release_date": "2013-07-15T10:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "X Marks the Spot: SDO Sees Reconnection",
            "description": "Two NASA spacecraft have provided the most comprehensive movie ever of a mysterious process at the heart of all explosions on the sun: magnetic reconnection. Magnetic reconnection happens when magnetic field lines come together, break apart, and then exchange partners, snapping into new positions and releasing a jolt of magnetic energy. This process lies at the heart of giant explosions on the sun such as solar flares and coronal mass ejections, which can fling radiation and particles across the solar system. Magnetic field lines, themselves, are invisible, but the sun's charged plasma particles course along their length. Space telescopes can see that material appearing as bright lines looping and arcing through the sun’s atmosphere, and so map out the presence of magnetic field lines. Looking at a series of images from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), scientists saw two bundles of field lines move toward each other, meet briefly to form what appeared to be an “X” and then shoot apart with one set of lines and its attendant particles leaping into space and one set falling back down onto the sun. To confirm what they were seeing, the scientists turned to a second NASA spacecraft, the Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI). RHESSI collects spectrograms, a kind of data that can show where exceptionally hot material is present in any given event on the sun. RHESSI showed hot pockets of solar material forming above and below the reconnection point, an established signature of such an event. By combining the SDO and RHESSI data, the scientists were able to describe the process of what they were seeing, largely confirming previous models and theories, while revealing new, three-dimensional aspects of the process. || ",
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            "title": "ARTEMIS Orbits Magnetic Moon",
            "description": "Launched in 2007, NASA's five THEMIS spacecraft have now successfully completed their 2 year mission to determine the cause of geomagnetic substorms. Because they are continuing to work perfectly, NASA is re-directing the outermost two spacecraft to special orbits at and around the Moon. This new mission, which is called ARTEMIS, uses some very complex maneuvers over two years (2009-2010) to get both spacecraft into position. As the Moon orbits the Earth, it passes in and out of the Earth's magnetic field and the million-mile per hour stream of particles emitted by the Sun known as the solar wind. While in these regions, the two ARTEMIS spacecraft will seek evidence for turbulence, particle acceleration, and magnetic reconnection, three fundamental phenomena that control the nature of the solar wind's interaction with the Earth's magnetosphere. Employing their full complement of instruments and unique two-point vantage points, the spacecraft will study the vacuum the Moon carves out in the solar wind, and the processes that eventually fill this lunar wake. Nearer the Moon, they will observe the effects of surface electric fields, ions sputtered off the lunar surface, and determine the internal structure of the Moon from transient variations in its magnetic field induced by external changes.Also available are the complete, unedited visualization and frames. || ",
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            "title": "Rebounding Plasma Flows in the Inner Magnetosphere",
            "description": "Substorms send jets of plasma careening Earthward at speeds near 600,000 miles/hour. Researchers comparing multipoint THEMIS spacecraft observations with the predictions of numerical simulations have determined the width of one such jet and determined what happened to it when it encountered the strong magnetic fields within the inner magnetosphere. Plasma jets with the width of the Earth slam into the inner magnetosphere, generating vortices with opposite senses of rotation that appear and disappear on either side of the plasma jet. These vortices become sources of field-aligned electrical currents that flow down to the Earth's ionosphere, where they generate auroral brightenings and intense magnetic field disturbances. After striking the inner magnetospheric magnetic field, the plasma jet itself bounces back and forth, losing energy each time it encounters the magnetic field, and continuing to oscillate until the flow energy is dissipated in the form of plasma heating. || ",
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            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2010-03-22T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Heliophysics Program Overview",
            "description": "This short program overview for NASA's heliophysics division explains how NASA studies the sun—and more importantly—how it affects our daily lives. || ",
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            "result_type": "Animation",
            "release_date": "2008-07-24T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "THEMIS Sees Magnetic Reconnection",
            "description": "THEMIS observations confirm for the first time that magnetic reconnection in the magnetotail triggers the onset of substorms. Substorms are the sudden violent eruptions of space weather that release solar energy trapped in the Earth's magnetic field. || ",
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            "result_type": "Animation",
            "release_date": "2007-02-12T12:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "Proton Aurora",
            "description": "This animation shows a magnetic reconnection event with proton aurora data from the IMAGE spacecraft. || Proton aurora animation || Image_recon060000602_print.jpg (1024x698) [32.6 KB] || Image_recon0600_web.png (320x216) [276.8 KB] || reconD1.webmhd.webm (960x540) [7.5 MB] || 720x486_4x3_29.97p (720x486) [64.0 KB] || reconD1.mov (720x486) [38.3 MB] || recon.mpg (352x240) [7.9 MB] || recon.mov (360x240) [14.4 MB] || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20098/",
            "result_type": "Animation",
            "release_date": "2007-01-23T00:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "MMS orbit animation",
            "description": "This animation shows the orbits of Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission, a Solar-Terrestrial Probe mission comprising of four identically instrumented spacecraft that will study the Earth's magnetosphere. || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20097/",
            "result_type": "Animation",
            "release_date": "2007-01-17T00:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "Substorms",
            "description": "This animation shows a magnetospheric substorm, during which the reconnection causes energy to be rapidly released along the field lines causing the auroras to brighten. || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20096/",
            "result_type": "Animation",
            "release_date": "2007-01-11T00:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "THEMIS Launch and Deployment",
            "description": "THEMIS (Time History of Events and Microscale Interactions durind Substorms) answers fundamental outstanding questions regarding the magnetospheric substorm instability, a dominant mechanism of transport and explosive release of solar wind energy within Geospace. THEMIS will elucidate which magnetotail process is responsible for substorm onset at the region where substorm auroras map (~10Re): (i) a local disruption of the plasma sheet current or (ii) that current's interaction with the rapid influx of plasma emanating from lobe flux annihilation at ~25Re. Correlative observations from long-baseline (2-25 Re) probe conjunctions, will delineate the causal relationship and macroscale interaction between the substorm components. THEMIS's five identical probes measure particles and fields on orbits which optimize tail-aligned conjunctions over North America. || ",
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            "id": 3356,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3356/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2006-05-22T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "THEMIS Mission and Substorm Simulation",
            "description": "This visualization combines simulations of the THEMIS (Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms) mission orbits with a GGCM (Geospace General Circulation Model) simulation.  It illustrates how the five THEMIS satellites will work together to detect substorm events in the magnetosphere.  One goal of the THEMIS mission is to test how these substorm events are related to the formation of the aurora.This mission consists of five identical spacecraft (usually designated P1, P2, P3, P4 and P5) with orbits aligned so they reach their apogee along the same line from the Earth.  This alignment remains fixed in space so as the Earth moves around the Sun, the constellation of spacecraft will extend on the nightside of the Earth in winter to sample the Earth's magnetosphere, and on the dayside of the Earth in summer to sample the incoming solar wind.  This way they can better map the geospace environment.Probes P1 and P2 are called the 'outer probes' and P3, 4, and 5 are the 'inner probes'.  P3 and P4 share the same orbit.  The outer probes will detect the onset of the substorm, while the inner probes will monitor the Earthward plasma flows from the event.For more information on the GGCM model, visit the Community Coordinated Modeling Center and OpenGGCM. || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20036/",
            "result_type": "Animation",
            "release_date": "2004-12-03T12:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "IMAGE and Cluster View Magnetic Reconnection",
            "description": "The IMAGE and Cluster spacecraft were ideally positioned in their orbits to view the reconnection event which led to the proton aurora formation. || ",
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        {
            "id": 20037,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20037/",
            "result_type": "Animation",
            "release_date": "2004-12-03T12:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "Proton Aurora Forms from Reconnection Event",
            "description": "Solar wind protons can breach the Earth's magnetic field through a magnetic reconnection event.  Sometimes when this happens we see a (proton) aurora when the solar protons make it to the Earth's atmosphere. || ",
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            "id": 2861,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2861/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2003-12-04T12:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "Reconnection: Solar Wind Breaches the Earth's Magnetic Shield",
            "description": "The Far Ultraviolet camera aboard the IMAGE spacecraft captured this view of a proton aurora (the bright spot near the center of the view) as well as the ring of the electron aurora. The protons for this aurora came from the incoming solar wind. They made it though the Earth's magnetic shield in a magnetic reconnection event higher in the magnetosphere which was detected by the Cluster satellite. Note: A 'corner' appears in the data in the beginning as the IMAGE spacecraft moves into a position where it can view the entire north polar region. || ",
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            "id": 2717,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2717/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2003-04-11T12:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Closeup of Solar 'Tadpoles' with time tags",
            "description": "Here is a close-up view of dark 'tentacles' or 'tadpoles' moving towards the solar surface in this solar flare of April 21, 2002 seen by TRACE.  One theory proposed in this press release is that they are due to voids created by magnetic reconnection in the flare.  This version of the visualization displays the instrument clock time tags. || ",
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            "id": 2718,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2718/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2003-04-11T12:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Closeup of Solar 'Tadpoles' without time tags",
            "description": "Here is a close-up view of dark 'tentacles' or 'tadpoles' moving towards the solar surface in this solar flare of April 21, 2002 seen by TRACE.  One theory proposed in this press release is that they are due to voids created by magnetic reconnection in the flare.  This version of the visualization does not display the instrument clock time tags. || ",
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