Theory and Modeling for the Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission

The Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission will provide measurement capabilities, which will exceed those of earlier and even contemporary missions by orders of magnitude. MMS will, for the first time, be able to measure directly and with sufficient resolution key features of the magnetic reconnection process, down to the critical electron scales, which need to be resolved to understand how reconnection works. Owing to the comM. Hesse (B) · D. Sibeck NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA e-mail: [email protected] N. Aunai Institute for Research in Astrophysics and Planetology, Toulouse, France J. Birn Space Science Institute, Boulder, CO, USA P. Cassak West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, USA R.E. Denton Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA J.F. Drake University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA T. Gombosi University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA M. Hoshino University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan W. Matthaeus University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA S. Zenitani National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Tokyo, Japan