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

• Fluxgate Magnetometer (FGM)
• Search Coil Magnetometer (SCM)
• Electric field Double Probes (EDP)
• Electron Drift Instrument (EDI)

Data Products & Availability

Data Availability

To find data availability, see: Data Availability Status

Conjunctions

To see a list of MMS conjunctions with RBSP and THEMIS:

https://lasp.colorado.edu/mms/sdc/public/community/conjunctions/

Derived Products

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

• Particle Spectrograms
• Particle Moments
• Particle Distribution Slices
• 3D Particle Distribution Plots (STEL3D)

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