The Importance of Plasma and Magnetic Investigations in Small Body Missions
Whitepaper #320 submitted to the Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey 2023-2032. Topics: ocean worlds; other: Mission Instrumentation; primitive bodies
by Michaela Villarreal, Rob Lillis, Janet Luhmann, Christina Lee, Joseph O'Rourke, Rona Oran, Kimberly Moore, and Carol Raymond
Published onMar 18, 2021
The Importance of Plasma and Magnetic Investigations in Small Body Missions
We recommend NASA’s Planetary Science Decadal Survey emphasize the need to regularly incorporate plasma and magnetic investigations on all planetary mission payloads (including small bodies) and create a ride-along program which would provide an outlet to propose these instruments to perform interdivisional science.
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