Comprehensive Observations of Magnetospheric Particle Acceleration, Sources, and Sinks (COMPASS)
Whitepaper #067 in the Decadal Survey for Solar and Space Physics (Heliophysics) 2024-2033. Main topics: basic research. Additional topics: planetary magnetospheres; space-based missions/projects; emerging opportunities.
by George Clark, Peter Kollmann, Jim Kinnison, Dan Kelly, Wen Li, Lauren Blum, Robert Marshall, Drew Turner, Aleksandr (Sasha) Ukhorskiy, Ian Cohen, Barry Mauk, Elias Roussos, Quentin Nénon, Howard (Todd) Smith, Grant Berland, William Dunn, Ralph Kraft, George Hospodarsky, Peter Williams, Xin Wu, Aleksandr (Sasha) Drozdov, Paul O’Brian, Mark Looper, Xinlin Li, Anthony Sciola, Kareem Sorathia, Angelica Sicard, Andy Santo, Meagan Leary, Amanda Haapala, Fazle Siddique, Michelle Donegan, Ben Clare, Derek Emmell, Kim Slack, John Wirzburger, Daniel Sepulveda, Lew Roufberg, Jacklyn Perry, John Schellhase, Darrius Pergosky, Elisabeth Able, Mike O’Neill, Cristina Gernandes, Debarati Chattopadhyay, Samuel Bibelhauser, Seth Kijewski, Joe Pulkowski, Mike Furrow, and Ravindra Desai
Published onJul 31, 2023
Comprehensive Observations of Magnetospheric Particle Acceleration, Sources, and Sinks (COMPASS)
In this white paper, we present COMPASS, a novel mission concept designed to explore the uncharted and hazardous regions of Jupiter with highly capable instrumentation with the goal of making fundamental discoveries in space physics. The basic motivation to explore such a hazardous region is to expand the frontiers of Heliophysics in the next decade by investigating extreme radiation environments.
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