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MISSION VIDEOS

This is a collection of videos about the MMS mission, instrumentation, and results, including insight from team members about their own research and the practical applications of the mission science.

Tom Moore (Goddard Space Flight Center)
Tom Moore is the project scientist for MMS at Goddard Space Flight Center.

Michael Hesse (Goddard Space Flight Center)
Dr. Michael Hesse is the Lead scientist on the MMS Theory & Modeling Team.

Stephen Fuselier (Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center)
Dr. Stephen Fuselier is a senior manager at Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center, supervising a team of 45 scientists and engineers in the space physics department. Together with other IBEX team members, they designed, constructed, and tested the IBEX-Lo sensor, which will detect particles to help scientists create the first map of the Solar System's boundary.

David Young (SWRI)
Dr. David Young from the Southwest Research Institute is the lead investigator on the MMS Hot Plasma Composition Analyzer.

Roy Torbert (University of New Hampshire)
Dr. Roy Torbert is the Deputy Principal Investigator of the SMART team, and lead of the FIELDS instrument suite for MMS that measures the spectrum of electric and magnetic fields in Earth's magnetosphere.

Chris Russell (UCLA)
Professor C. T. Russell is a member of the faculties of both the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics and the Department of Earth and Space Sciences. In addition to his work with MMS, he is the principal investigator on the POLAR mission; a co-investigator on the magnetometer team on the Cassini mission to Saturn; the ROMAP investigation on the Rosetta mission to comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko; the IMPACT investigation on the STEREO mission to study solar and solar wind disturbances; the THEMIS mission to study substorms; and the magnetometer investigation on the Venus Express mission to study the solar wind interaction with Venus.

  • The science of MMS [5:27] Feb 2010 DOWNLOAD
    • Why is the science of MMS important?
    • How does your work connect to the greater picture of space weather?
    • What is magnetic reconnection?
    • Where does magnetic reconnection occur?
    • Why does the MMS mission use four spacecraft?
    • Who inspired you to study science?

EDUCATIONAL VIDEOS

This is a collection of introductory educational videos explaining the phenomena and science of magnetic fields and the magnetosphere.

Patricia Reiff (Director - Rice Space Institute)
Patricia H. Reiff is a Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and Director of the Rice Space Institute at Rice University. Her research focuses on space plasma physics, mostly in the area of magnetospheric physics.

Paul Cassak (Assistant Professor - Theoretical and Computational Plasma Physics - West Virginia University)
Paul Cassak's research interests include magnetic reconnection, nonlinear dynamics, physics of the solar corona, magnetospheric physics, fusion physics, space physics, plasma theory, physics education and outreach.

MMS EPO: Dr. Patricia Reiff
Director: Rice Space Institute
Updated: March 27, 2013		 MMS is a Solar-Terrestrial Probe Mission
a program of SWRI with NASA support