Welcome to the MMS public data site. MMS data from September 1, 2015 - November 15, 2022 is available through this portal, for all the instruments on board the four MMS spacecraft. New data will be released weekly by the MMS science teams. For more information on how to access the data and use the tools provided by the MMS team, see the following pages:
- To learn how to use the MMS web services to access data, visit the How to Get Data Page.
- To search for specific data sets from a given instrument or observatory, try the Search Page.
- To download a single file, or examine the data available at the Science Data Center, Browse the SDC.
The MMS Science Team maintains a continuously updated, sortable list of published papers via Google Scholar.
We are committed to the open dissemination of data and results from the mission. Hundreds of papers exploring magnetic reconnection have been presented at conferences, seminars, symposia, and in peer-reviewed journals.
MMS Instrument teams have updated the Calibration and Measurement Algorithms Document (CMAD) to reflect the current state of MMS data products and calibrations.
Open Access Papers
| Available from Space Science Reviews, the 'MMS Book' provides a full description of the MMS mission, it's science objectives, operations, and instruments. |  |
| From Geophysical Research Letters, "First results from NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) Mission" a collection of fifty-eight papers from the first eighteen months of operations. |  |
Primary contacts for the mission are listed below. For information and contacts for a particular instrument, see the instrument pages in the Datasets section of the website.
| MMS Project Contacts | ||
| MMS Science Principal Investigator | Dr. James Burch | SWRI |
| MMS Program Scientist | Dr. Galen Fowler | NASA |
| MMS Project Scientist | Dr. Guan Le | NASA GSFC |
MMS tetrahedron formation at apogee.
TQF = Tetrahedron Quality Factor as reported by MOC.
The four Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) spacecraft will collect a combined volume of ~100 gigabits per day of particle and field data. On average, only 4 gigabits of that volume can be transmitted to the ground. To maximize the scientific value of each transmitted data segment, MMS has developed the Science Operations Center (SOC) to manage science operations, instrument operations, and selection, downlink, distribution, and archiving of MMS science data sets. The SOC is managed by the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) in Boulder, Colorado and serves as the primary point of contact for community participation in the mission. MMS instrument teams conduct their operations through the SOC, and utilize the SOC's Science Data Center (SDC) for data management and distribution. The SOC provides a single mission data archive for the housekeeping and science data, calibration data, ephemerides, attitude and other ancillary data needed to support the scientific use and interpretation. All levels of data products will reside at and be disseminated from the SDC. Documentation and metadata describing data products, algorithms, instrument calibrations, validation, and data quality will be provided. Arguably, the most important innovation developed by the SOC is the MMS burst data management and selection system. With nested automation and "Scientist-in-the-Loop" (SITL) processes, these systems are designed to maximize the value of the burst data by prioritizing the data segments selected for transmission to the ground. This paper describes the MMS science operations approach, processes and data systems, including the burst system and the SITL concept.