MMS spacecraft

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When they launch in 2014, the four identically instrumented MMS spacecraft-Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission-will help clear up a scientific debate. The crafts will explore what happens after magnetic lines of force cross, cancel and reconnect. This process of magnetic reconnection is responsible for solar flares that have the equivalent energy of several atomic bombs.

March 1, 2012 5:46 AM PST

Photo by: NASA

| Caption by: Charles Cooper

 

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