Solar and Space Physics A Science for a Technological Society: An Overview (2014) / Chapter Skim
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Enabling a Decade of Discovery and the Development of Applications for Society
Enabling a Decade of Discovery and the Development of Applications for Society
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After considering scientific priorities, rough estimates of project costs, and the long term health of the research community, the committee prioritized the recommendations, indicating which programs the agencies should implement first. Ideally, all of the recommendations can be implemented in the coming decade.
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. For NSF, current programs include the recently deployed Advanced Modular Incoherent Scatter Radar, the Daniel K
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NSF and NASA's current and near-future (indicated by yellow text) program of solar and space physics facilities and missions, which form the Heliophysics Systems Observatory (HSO)
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System science requires new types and configurations of observations, as well as a new cadre of researchers who can cross disciplinary boundaries seamlessly and develop theoretical and computational models that extract the essential physics from measurements made using multiple observing platforms. The DRIVE initiative.
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to conduct synoptic observations of coronal magnetic fields. NASA To enable future missions, NASA should consolidate and increase should fly more sounding rockets and research balloons, and both funding for solar and space physics instrument and technology agencies should increase funds for newly developed "cube" satellites.
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The Explorer Program has repeatedly proven to be one of the most cost-effective and best cost-controlled avenues for implementing space science missions. The decadal survey recommends increasing the cadence of the Heliophysics Explorer program to one mission every two to three years.
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Astrophysics and Heliophysics Explorers Missions Astrophysics and Heliophysics Explorers Missions of the past 2 decades from http://explorers.gsfc.nasa.gov/missions.html.
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would greatly extend the highly successful first heliospheric map ping mission, IBEX, to enable the discovery of the detailed processes and interactions between the heliosphere and the local interstellar medium. In addition, as the mission implementation requires local measurements of solar wind, magnetic fields, and energetic particles, IMAP inherently provides key observations relevant to understanding and predicting Earth's space weather.
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Projected onto the outer boundary of the solar system, measurements from the Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) mission, launched in 2009, revealed an unexpected source of high-energy particles, which are shown here in yellow and green.
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Solar Probe Plus, which will travel closer to the Sun than any previous spacecraft, is an example of this type of mission; future constellation missions that would utilize multiple spacecraft to provide simultaneous measurements from broad regions of space (in order to separate spatial from temporal effects and reveal the couplings between adjacent regions of space) are another.
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This comprehensive view will enable prediction of complex behaviors that emerge under constantly varying conditions in space and reveal how Earth's atmosphere affects space weather.
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