A Total Solar Eclipse Earth-Based Mission: Multi-wavelength Observations from Land, Sea and Air to Probe the Critical middle Corona

Total solar eclipses continue to yield key plasma parameters of the inner and middle corona, by capitalizing on the V+NIR coronal emission lines. This critical coronal space remains inaccessible to existing and to-be launched coronagraphic instrumentation in the next decade. This white paper calls for the urgent need to continue to fund TSE observations over the next solar cycle.