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. This process, called magnetic reconnection, occurs when magnetic field lines tangle and explosively realign, flinging […]
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Ames Research Center, Ames Research Center's Science Directorate, Earth's Magnetic Field, Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics, Magnetosphere, Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS), Science & Research, The Sun
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March 12, 2025
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