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MMS Science Coordination Site

This is a wiki/forum for the MMS Science Working Team and its mission activities. 
For support, contact Lon dot Riesberg at LASP dot Colorado dot edu. 

A relevant science forum is also operated by the team: The Reconnexion Physics Forum 

News:

  • Science article on President's Budget and impacts on STEM Education and Outreach. 
  • 30 Sep - 4 Oct 2013: Next SWT/SWG Meeting at APL: Agenda : Visitor Info : Presentations 

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  • 26-28 Sept.: Fall SWT Meeting at UNH. Presentations are posted here.
  • 10 June: Commissioning discussion at GSFC
  • 7-9 June: Ground System PDR at GSFC
  • 1-2 June: SRB Update Briefing at GSFC Visitor Center
  • 18 May: "Interactive Tools for Data Transformation and Visualization" by J. Heer @ GSFC IS&T Colloquium
  • 5-6 May: SOC Technical Interchange Meeting at LASP
  • 4 May: Pre-PDR Peer Review of SOC at LASP

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Google News Feed - "Magnetospheric Physics" - previous month

Voyager: Outward bound - Nature.com

Voyager: Outward bound
Nature.com
The atomic age was well under way as Stone finished high school, and a teacher at his junior college told him about the world-renowned physics programme at the University of Chicago, Illinois, home to nuclear pioneer Enrico Fermi. Off Stone went ...

Telling Time On Saturn: Undergraduate Student Shows How Planet's ... - Science Daily (press release)

Baltimore Sun

Telling Time On Saturn: Undergraduate Student Shows How Planet's ...
Science Daily (press release)
The discovery by Tim Kennelly, a UI junior majoring in physics and astronomy, is one of the first direct observations of seasonal changes in Saturn's magnetosphere. In addition, the finding carries over to all planets having a magnetosphere, including ...
'Tis the Season -- for Plasma Changes at SaturnNASA
How Saturn's Magnetic Activity Could Help us Pinpoint Time on the Ringed PlanetUniverse Today
Saturn : Scientist Figures Out How To Tell Time On Ringed PlanetiTech Post

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Why Warming Oceans Could Mean Dwindling Fish - TIME

Why Warming Oceans Could Mean Dwindling Fish
TIME
Dr. Larry Vardiman (scientist and physicist) of the Institue for Creation Research says: ... The Sun's changing sunspot activity influences the magnetosphere surrounding the Earth permitting more GCR to strike the Earth during high periods of activity ...

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Climate Change Pushes Carbon Dioxide to Worrisome Milestone - Boise Weekly

Boise Weekly

Climate Change Pushes Carbon Dioxide to Worrisome Milestone
Boise Weekly
Dr. Larry Vardiman (scientist and physicist) of the Institue for Creation Research says: ... The Sun's changing sunspot activity influences the magnetosphere surrounding the Earth permitting more GCR to strike the Earth during high periods of activity ...

and more »
First GOES-R instrument ready to be installed onto spacecraft - NOAA

NOAA

First GOES-R instrument ready to be installed onto spacecraft
NOAA
The University of Colorado's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) built and tested EXIS. EXIS will be shipped from the LASP site in Boulder to Lockheed Martin Space Systems Co. in Littleton, Colo., later this year to be installed onto ...

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Saturn's Age-Defying Appearance Explained By Thermal Processes ... - Huffington Post

Saturn's Age-Defying Appearance Explained By Thermal Processes ...
Huffington Post
"Scientists have been wondering for years if Saturn was using an additional source of energy to look so bright, but instead our calculations show that Saturn appears young because it can't cool down," Gilles Chabrier, a professor in the department of ...

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Greenhouse Effect: CO2 Concentrations Set to Hit Record High of 400 PPM - TIME

Greenhouse Effect: CO2 Concentrations Set to Hit Record High of 400 PPM
TIME
Dr. Larry Vardiman (scientist and physicist) of the Institue for Creation Research says: ... The Sun's changing sunspot activity influences the magnetosphere surrounding the Earth permitting more GCR to strike the Earth during high periods of activity ...

and more »
Scientists warn carbon dioxide emissions speeding up Arctic Ocean acidification - Alaska Dispatch

Alaska Dispatch

Scientists warn carbon dioxide emissions speeding up Arctic Ocean acidification
Alaska Dispatch
Dr. Larry Vardiman (scientist and physicist) of the Institue for Creation Research says: ... The Sun's changing sunspot activity influences the magnetosphere surrounding the Earth permitting more GCR to strike the Earth during high periods of activity ...

and more »
Cluster hears the heartbeat of magnetic reconnection - Space Daily

Cluster hears the heartbeat of magnetic reconnection
Space Daily
For the first time, scientists have resolved the detailed structure of the core region where magnetic reconnection takes place in the magnetosphere of Earth using unprecedented wave measurements. The study, based on data from ESA's Cluster mission ...

Fox Snooze: Global Warming Name Game Debunked By Media Matters (Again) - De Smog Blog (blog)

De Smog Blog (blog)

Fox Snooze: Global Warming Name Game Debunked By Media Matters (Again)
De Smog Blog (blog)
Dr. Larry Vardiman (scientist and physicist) of the Institue for Creation Research says: ... The Sun's changing sunspot activity influences the magnetosphere surrounding the Earth permitting more GCR to strike the Earth during high periods of activity ...

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