Interhemispheric Conjugacy Explorer (ICE) — A Mission Concept
Whitepaper #241 in the Decadal Survey for Solar and Space Physics (Heliophysics) 2024-2033. Main topics: basic research. Additional topics: system science; space-based missions/projects; user-need-driven basic space weather research.
by Kan Liou, Yongliang Zhang, Larry J. Paxton, Hysub Kil, Robert Schaefer, Yue Deng, Daniel Welling, Ramon Lopez, and Brian Kaplinger
Published onJul 31, 2023
Interhemispheric Conjugacy Explorer (ICE) — A Mission Concept
ICE will provide global, continuous and concurrent observations of aurora, polar cap, thermosphere and ionosphere in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres to transform our understanding of the magnetosphere-ionosphere-thermosphere system from “local” to “global,” thus allowing us to address interhemispheric asymmetries including both the sources and consequences.
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