NASA's MMS Captures Magnetic Reconnection in Action

Like sending sensors up into a hurricane, NASA has flown four spacecraft through an invisible maelstrom in space, called magnetic reconnection. Magnetic reconnection is one of the prime drivers of space radiation and so it is a key factor in the quest to learn more about our space environment and protect our spacecraft and astronauts as we explore farther and farther from Earth.

MMS is made of four identical spacecraft that launched in March 2015. They fly in a pyramid formation to create a full 3-dimensional map of any phenomena it observes. On October 16, 2015, the spacecraft traveled straight through a magnetic reconnection event at the boundary where Earth’s magnetic field bumps up against the sun’s magnetic field.

This short video outlines the MMS mission and its first results. Since it launched, MMS has made more than 4,000 trips through the magnetic boundaries around Earth, each time gathering information about the way the magnetic fields and particles move. A surprising result was that at the moment of interconnection between the sun’s magnetic field lines and those of Earth the crescents turned abruptly so that the electrons flowed along the field lines. By watching these electron tracers, MMS made the first observation of the predicted breaking and interconnection of magnetic fields in space.

Credit: NASA/GSFC/Genna Duberstein

[astrogirlusa]

I love how far science has come and can only dream of how far it will go.

[stren]

great to see an update on MMS, keep up the good work

[wilberjgreer]

Thank you NASA & MMS. What a Magnetic Eyeball.

[DavidODuvall]

NASA, you've accomplished a complicated set of tasks.  Flying these satellites in formation, collecting the data and analyzing the data has passed new milestones.  Keep up the good work!  How are you doing on fine tuning the computer models with your actual MMS observations?  Do your observations show any interactions or influence originating from outside of our solar system?  Again, keep up the excellent science progress and the informative videos.

[IstasPumaNevada]

Pretty freakin' cool. Congratulations on capturing this!

[pavalotheartist]

Magnetic reconnection is a fantasy. these fieldlines started as a graphic aid to visualize the direction of a magnetic field. They are now wrongfully being portrayed as actual physical entities with specific properties.

An analogy to clarify: I can draw a Mickey Mouse but the lines that make up the drawing will never ever become a physical reality in order to explain certain observations of certain events. They will forever be a bunch of lines we as humans have dedicated a certain intellectual meaning to. That's all.
And alas more of this is going on throughout the standard cosmology. It has been for almost a century. It is actually littered with it and is gradually becoming terminal.

Dare/want to know more about it? let me know....

[dejanvojvodic]

since magnetism is a force that has no energy of its own ... what sort of energy does magnetic reconnection release ..? out of which particles ...

[stephendean]

Could magnetic reconnection explain an accelerating universe

[harryandruschak]

Thank you for this informative upload :)
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and "IamTranslation" as spammers. Note correct use of the Oxford Comma :)

[MassDynamic]

create a wormhole at the point of the explosions

[IChIDH]

Magnetism all over the universe without electricity? Nice try. The universe is governed by electromagnetism, not gravity.

[freemanontheland]

Did he say"If were to travel to mars we need to understand this complex system?Van Allen belts.Didn't we already learn this system during the moon missions?Valid question what's to learn?

[metalgear-]

Wake me up when we acknowledge that the Universe revolves around Magnetism rather than Gravity. Might want to look into Diamagnetism of the Magnetosphere as the force we mistake as Gravity. Space is divided & separated via each Field allowing differential in atmosphere + pressure. We live in the Vacuum of the Magnetosphere not the Vacuum of Mass.

[Roadsidemagician]

When I watch these videos all I can think of is Star Trek The Next Generation LOL Jean-Luc get out there and handle business!

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[cipur]

how do those satellites navigates? we are spinning, flying around sun and shooting through the space, earth is flat.

[sammybell]

WHY ARE THEY LEAVING OUT THE FACT THAT (WORM-HOLES) ARE CREATED, THAT ARE USED BY (ETS) AND MAYBE USED FOR FUTURE SPACE TRAVEL.

[the_magisterate]

help me... i just watched another video saying magnetic reconnection isn't true, and then this video completely debunks it. am i stupid? do i need to pay attention? wtf?

[_anormale_megacraft]

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