March 11, 2015 - Don't even try to guess what NASA's next launch will deliver in technological advance, scientific understanding, and new research possibilities. That is mission impossible, says University of Delaware physicist William Matthaeus. "There is no way to predict what the impact will be," he said.
No one has ever seen what scientists expect to see in the $850 million Magnetospheric Multiscale mission, after all. And no one can imagine what the world will be like two years from now -- or 10 years.