Sun ID: 20210

MMS Spacecraft Animation

Animations by Walt Feimer Released on March 14, 2014

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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Animation Credits

Walt Feimer (HTSI): Lead Animator
Genna Duberstein (USRA): Producer
Aaron E. Lepsch (ADNET Systems, Inc.): Project Support

Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab

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Mission:
Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS)

Keywords:
SVS >> Earth
SVS >> HDTV
SVS >> Magnetic Fields
SVS >> Magnetic Reconnection
SVS >> Solar Wind
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Sun-earth Interactions
SVS >> Space Weather
SVS >> Hyperwall
SVS >> Heliophysics
SVS >> MMS
NASA Science >> Sun
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Sun-earth Interactions >> Solar Activity >> Coronal Mass Ejections

GCMD keywords can be found on the Internet with the following citation: Olsen, L.M., G. Major, K. Shein, J. Scialdone, S. Ritz, T. Stevens, M. Morahan, A. Aleman, R. Vogel, S. Leicester, H. Weir, M. Meaux, S. Grebas, C.Solomon, M. Holland, T. Northcutt, R. A. Restrepo, R. Bilodeau, 2013. NASA/Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Earth Science Keywords. Version 8.0.0.0.0