article_snippet: The groundbreaking and complex mission represents the first time this astronomical phenomena will be studied in extremely fine detail.
article_snippet: The MMS mission will help scientsits understand how this process is taking place in the environment around Earth.
article_snippet: Over the following weeks, Nasa scientists and engineers will deploy several complex booms and antennae on the spacecraft, and test all Nasa scientists and engineers instruments.
article_snippet: The four will then be placed in a pyramid formation, separated by distances of 6.2 to 62 miles (10 to 100km), in preparation for science observations that are scheduled to begin in early September.
article_snippet: the spacecraft will sturdy the former phenomenon for one and a half years, while the following science phase will focus on the latter phenomenon. '
article_snippet: After a decade of planning and engineering, the science team is ready to go to work,' said Jim Burch, principal investigator for the MMS instrument suite science team at the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio (SwRI). '
article_snippet: Jim Burch, principal investigator for the MMS instrument suite science team at the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio (SwRI)'ve never had this type of opportunity to study this fundamental process in such detail.'
article_snippet: the spacecraft will be placed in a pyramid formation (illustrated), separated by distances of 6.2 to 62 miles (10 to 100km), in preparation for science observations that are scheduled to begin in early September .