Magnetosphere Multiscale Mission

SMART program (Solving Magnetospheric Acceleration, Reconnection and Turbulence)


(watch this space for more developments!)

The MMS-SMART team members, led by Jim Burch at Southwest Research Institute, happy after hearing their selection by NASA as the instrument suite for the MMS mission (click here for a fullsize view)

MMS will use a four-spacecraft suite to study reconnection, the most important process in the Earth's magnetosphere and in astrophysical objects such as solar flares. Rice will be leading the EPO for this mission


MMS EPO lead is Dr. Patricia Reiff of Rice University. The MMS EPO is part of the Public Connection program, which creates and distributes educational materials including educational CD-Roms (Space Weather, Space Update, and Earth Update) and immersive planetarium shows and portable systems to take to schools and public events.
Components of the MMS EPO program include:
MMS Links of Interest:

Page last updated 7/23/2007.