The MMS Science Data Center: Operations, Capabilities, and Resources
Thursday, October 1, 2015
Kristopher William Larsen1, Christopher K Pankratz1, Barbara L Giles2, Kim Kokkonen1 and Brian Putnam1, (1)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Abstract:
September 1, 2015 marked the beginning of routine science operations for the MMS spacecraft. The Science Data Center at the University of Colorado is responsible for the data production, management, distribution, and archiving of the data received. The mission will collect several gigabytes per day of particles and field data. Management of these data requires effective selection, transmission, analysis, and storage of data in the ground segment of the mission, including efficient distribution paths to enable the science community to answer the key questions regarding magnetic reconnection. Beginning March 1, 2016, the Science Data Center website will serve as the primary portal for the science community to access MMS data, along with supporting documentation and metadata describing the available data products, algorithms, calibrations, validations, and data quality. This website provides the tools necessary to access and analyze all the data returned by the MMS spacecraft, connections between the MMS data and the modeling and ground observations communities, and ancillary data products to aid in the understanding of the microphysics active in Earth’s magnetosphere.
