MMS Stories
NASA’s Record-Shattering, Theory-Breaking MMS Mission Turns 10
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Since its launch on March 12, 2015, NASA’s MMS, or Magnetospheric Multiscale, mission has been rewriting our understanding of a key physical process that is important across the universe, from black holes to the Sun to Earth’s protective magnetic field.…
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Scientists with NASA’s MMS Mission Crack 60-Year Mystery of Fast Magnetic Explosions
4 min read
In just minutes, a flare on the Sun can release enough energy to power the whole world for 20,000 years. An explosive process called magnetic reconnection triggers these solar flares, and scientists have spent the last half-century trying to understand…
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Finding Magnetic Eruptions in Space, With an AI Assistant
7 min read
An alert pops up in your email: The latest spacecraft observations are ready. You now have 24 hours to scour 84 hours-worth of data, selecting the most promising split-second moments you can find. The data points you choose, depending on…
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