NASA | The MMS Mission's Unique Orbit

The video discusses NASA's MMS mission, designed to study magnetic reconnection, a space phenomenon where magnetic energy is explosively converted into plasma energy, causing space weather events like the Aurora. The MMS mission involves four spacecraft in a tetrahedron formation to capture these events. The spacecraft orbits are designed to cross the magnetopause, where solar wind meets Earth's magnetic field, allowing scientists to observe magnetic reconnection in action.

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