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Specifically, and in priority order, MMS addresses three main objectives:
- Determine the role played by electron inertia and turbulent dissipation in driving magnetic reconnection in the electron diffusion region
- Determine the rate of magnetic reconnection and the parameters that control it.
- Determine the role played by ion inertial effects and turbulence in the physics of magnetic reconnection.
Our Senior Review 2020, extended these objectives to include:
- Investigate magnetic reconnection in all near-Earth environments,
- Determine the processes which heat plasma populations and accelerate particles to large energies,
- Study the way turbulent processes interact on kinetic scales, and
- Investigate the microphysics of collisionless shocks.
Our Senior Review 2023, refines these further for FY24-FY26:
- Understand how reconnection works in the boundary regions of Geospace for a wide range of plasma conditions
- Understand the processes that heat plasma populations and accelerate particles to large energies, especially their relationship to magnetic reconnection.
- Determine the nature of kinetic-scale turbulence and its role in reconnection and particle acceleration
- Investigate the kinetic physics of collisionless shocks for a wide range of Mach number
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