Since its inception on March 12, 2015, NASA’s MMS, or magnetic multi -scale, has been rewriting our understanding of an important physical process of the universe, which is important in the universe, from black holes to the Earth’s safety magnetic field.
This process, called magnetic rehabilitation, occurs when the magnetic field lines are confused and explosively identify, and blows nearby particles. Around the ground, a single magnetic recovery event can release the same energy in a couple of hours as the whole of the United States uses in one day.
In the past 10 years, thousands of research papers with discoveries through MMS have enabled wide range Artistic And Scientific predatorsFor example, about sun conditions that create space weather, which can affect technology and communication on Earth. It has also enabled Fusion Energy Technologies to enable insights.
“The MMS mission has been a very important asset in NASA’s Halifosx’s Observatory,” said Guan Lee, the lead of the MMS Mission at the NASA’s Goodard Space Flight Center in the Green Belt in Maryland. “It has completely changed how we understand the magnetic links.”
The study of magnetic links is the key to understanding where this energy goes and how we can affect the earth.
“The MMS mission not only studies the universal physical process, but it also allows us to investigate the mechanisms that we experience on the earth to fall on the sun, such as other things, such as, geo -magnetic storms, and even in extreme cases.”
Using four similar spacecraft, studying MMS magnetic rehabilitation while studying magnetic rehabilitation.
“You can measuring re -contact in the laboratory, but scales are rare that you can’t measure the detailed merits to understand the contact,” said Jim Berch, a principal investigator of MMS at the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas, Texas.
Magnetic recovery is mainly in two places around the earth, one is located on the face of the sun, and the other is away from the sun behind the earth. In their orbit, four MMS spacecraft repeatedly pass through these important places.
Before the MMS, scientists had a limited understanding of the magnetic unity. But by improving the device’s measurement, the speed of ten times, MMS has been able to dramatize what we know about this process dramatically. To date, MMS data has resulted in more than 1,500 published scientific articles.
“For example, it was found that the basic theory of re -connecting in the tumultuous areas was wrong because the previous mission could not observe at the MMS level,” Burch said. “We also got contact in many places that were not predicted.”
Working on new and better ideas of magnetic rehabilitation was an integral part of the MMS mission from the beginning.
“One of the important results by MMS is that the heart of the confusion has been well set up in NASA’s Ames Research Center in the Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley.” “This shows that health measures can make a decision between competitive ideas.”
The achievements of the mission have also been an honor for young scientists, who are closely involved with the mission at all levels.
“In addition to its scientific achievements, it has also helped about 50 students get a doctorate degree, and preliminary career scientists have also helped to hold leadership positions.”
To promote young scientists, MMS provides members of the team’s initial career research grant. The MMS team also made the role of “Leeds in Training” to bring early career scientists to the table for big mission decisions and provide them with the experience they needed to move to leadership positions. The program has been so successful that it is now essential for all NASA Hali Physics missions.
Beyond its scientific achievements, MMS has kept many Record. Just months after the launch, MMS received the first Guinies World Record Set 44,000 miles from the ground for most GPS. It will later scatter this record because it went into a long orbit, taking it 116,300 miles – Half -way moon – away from GPS Transponders on Earth. The GPS is designed to send signals to the ground, so using it in space, where the indicators are weak, the challenge. Using GPS at high altitude, MMS has shown its ability for other applications.
“This demonstration of GPS is of great interest to developers of Artemis missions, which is Testing GPS on lunar distances“NASA Goddard’s MMS Mission Director Jim Clepepel said.
The mission also contains the Guinness World Record, which is for the formation of a small satellite, is only 2.6 miles between the spacecraft. Over the years, four MMS spacecraft has flown from 5 to 100 miles of lines and pyramids to help scientists study magnetic recovery on various scales. At this time, the health of the spacecraft is very well maintained.
“Hardware has proved to be very reliable, still, for 10 years,” said Trevor Williams, the lead of MMS flight dynamics in NASA Goddard.
After the launch, the Williams and the Flight Operations Team gained more fuel effectively to the spacecraft and keep them on their specific separations. As a result, the mission still has a quarter fuel with which it launches. This economy leaves enough fuel to continue the mission for decades. This mission is the good news for scientists who want to continue studying magnetic recovery with MMS.
“We have thousands of magnetic links, but are very few at night,” said Birch. “But over the next three years we will be at an important place to end the nightmare investigation.”
By Hit Johnson-Groo
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Green Belt, MD.
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