Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA. 11th March, 2015. NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) spacecraft sits atop an Atlas V rocket between four lightning towers at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida in preparation for a launch tomorrow night. The MMS mission consists of four identical spacecraft that will orbit the earth to study the magnetic fields around our planet. Credit: Paul Hennessy/Alamy Live News

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