Magnetospheric MultiScale (MMS) Mission

  1. Quick Overview
  2. References

Quick Overview

MMS, a missions consisting of four identical spacecraft, was launched in 2015. This mission orbit around the Earth to study magnetic reconnection.

mms mission

For more information regarding the theory of magnetic reconnection, please see this for a introduction and this for a more detailed description. But magnetic reconnection is not what we are attempting to find in this project.

Bursty Bulk Flows (BBF)

Dipolarization Fronts (DF)

References