MMS Mission Trailer

  • Released Thursday, May 15, 2014
View full credits

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.

A movie trailer about the MMS mission.

Watch this video on the NASAexplorer YouTube channel.

For complete transcript, click here.

For More Information

See http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mms/

Credits

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

This page was originally published on Thursday, May 15, 2014.
This page was last updated on Tuesday, November 14, 2023 at 12:18 AM EST.

Missions

This visualization is related to the following missions:

Series

This visualization can be found in the following series:

Tapes

This visualization originally appeared on the following tapes:
  • MMS Mission Trailer (ID: 2014030)
    Thursday, May 29, 2014 at 4:00AM
    Produced by - Will Duquette (NASA)