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MMS Mission Launch

As an Atlas V rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in the background, the launch can also be seen on the countdown clock at the Kennedy Space Center's Press Site. The rocket was carrying NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale, or MMS, spacecraft. The launch began at 10:44 pm Eastern Time. MMS is the first space mission dedicated to the study of a phenomenon called magnetic reconnection.

 

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Credit: NASA/Frankie Martin

Image Number: 2015-1581

Date: March 12, 2015

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