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  • Magnetic explosion probes make it to the Cape

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    CAPE CANAVERAL — Two probes joined an identical pair near their Florida launch site today for liftoff aboard an Atlas 5 rocket in March to study magnetic field explosions in space. Together, the quartet is NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale mission, or MMS. Launch is slated for March 12. The spacecraft will fly in a tetrahedron formation,…