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Caption: NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale mission will use four identical spacecraft, variably spaced in Earth orbit, to make three-dimensional measurements of magnetospheric boundary regions and to examine the process of magnetic reconnection.
Credit: Southwest Research Institute
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