VIDEO SPECIAL: The Many Mysteries of MMS

By  //  December 14, 2014

The Magnetospheric Multiscale mission

ABOVE VIDEO: Scientists Michael Hesse and John Dorelli explain the science objectives of the MMS mission. The Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission is comprised of 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.