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Whitepaper #312 in the Decadal Survey for Solar and Space Physics (Heliophysics) 2024-2033. Main topics: space weather applications; basic research. Additional topics: space weather research/applications/operations pipeline; planetary ionospheres / upper atmospheres; […]
We propose that during the next decade of research, the NSF and NASA community invest in developing and flying Middle Ultraviolet (MUV: 200 to 300nm) spectrographic imagers for mapping the important tracer of ITM processes: Nitric Oxide (NO). Understanding composition changes in response to solar and geomagnetic forcing is crucial to understanding the energy balance of the upper atmosphere.