Magnetospheric Multiscale

MMS Plot

SPEDAS includes command line utilities and GUI plugins for loading and analyzing Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission data. All MMS related routines can be found in:

/projects/MMS/

Crib sheets showing example usage of command line routines can be found in:

/projects/MMS/examples/

Loading Data

There are several methods for for downloading MMS data.

• MMS Crib Sheets - A collection of scripts demonstrating usage of MMS command line routines. These range from basic loading and plotting to derived products and compound plots.
• SPEDAS GUI - Data can be loaded into the SPEDAS GUI via the MMS tab in the Load Data window.

Instruments

Hot Plasma

• Fast Plasma Instrument (FPI)
• Hot Plasma Composition Analyzer (HPCA)

Energetic Particles

• Energetic Ion Spectrometer (EIS)
• Fly's Eye Energetic Particle Sensor (FEEPS)

Fields

• Analog Fluxgate Magnetometer (AFG)
• Digital Fluxgate Magnetometer (DFG)
• Search Coil Magnetometer (SCM)
• Electric field Double Probes (EDP)

Data Products & Availability

Derived Products

Some data products such as moments and spectrograms can be produced in real time from all-sky data maps.

• Derived Particle Products

External Links

• Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission site - NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
• Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission site - NASA's Mission Directorate
• Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission site - by Southwest Research Institute
• Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission site - Rice University