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A new NASA mission will reveal the electron-scale physics of magnetic reconnection, a process that connects our planet to the rest of the Universe.

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Figure 1: A three-dimensional simulation of reconnection3,4.

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This work was supported by the NASA Magnetospheric MultiScale mission and its partners.

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  1. Thomas Earle Moore is at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA,

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  2. James L Burch is at Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas 78238, USA,

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  3. Roy B. Torbert is at the University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire 03824, USA,

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Moore, T., Burch, J. & Torbert, R. Magnetic reconnection. Nature Phys 11, 611–613 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys3393

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