Making the Fastest Instruments Even Faster
(World News Science)

By Mara Johnson-Groh NASA`s Goddard Space Flight Center Recently, NASA`s Magnetospheric Multiscale mission - MMS - was in just the right place at the right time to observe a new kind of turbulent particle jet in near-Earth space. The particle jet streamed from a particularly turbulent region called the magnetosheath, just outside the outer boundary of the Earth`s magnetic environment. It was the product of a magnetic reconnection event - an explosive process in which magnetic field lines cross and snap, flinging away nearby particles at high...