Imaging the End-to-End Dynamics of the Global Solar Wind-Magnetosphere Interaction
Whitepaper #369 in the Decadal Survey for Solar and Space Physics (Heliophysics) 2024-2033. Main topics: basic research. Additional topics: planetary magnetospheres; ground-based missions/projects; space-based missions/projects; system science.
by David Sibeck, Kyle Murphy, F. Scott Porter, Brian Walsh, Hyunju Connor, Kip Kuntz, Eftyhia Zesta, Jerry Goldstein, Harald Frey, Pontus Brandt, Phil Valek, Roman Gomez, Michael Purucker, Conrad Schiff, Nithin Sivadas, Steven Petrinec, Syau-Yun Hsieh, Homayon Aryan, Gina DiBraccio, Gonzalo Cucho Padin, Shingo Kameda, Charles Baker, Marcos Dias Silveira, Vivek Dwivedi, Ravindra Desai, Yaireska Collado-Vega, Rousseau Nutter, Michael Shoemaker, and Michael Henderson
Published onJul 31, 2023
Imaging the End-to-End Dynamics of the Global Solar Wind-Magnetosphere Interaction
This paper describes how a single spacecraft in a circular polar orbit provides observations essential to quantify the system science of the solar wind-magnetosphere interactions using its own observations of the solar wind input, the magnetopause, the auroral oval, the ring current, the plasmasphere, and the exosphere, in conjunction with ground-based observations of the nightside auroral oval.
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