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PAPERBACK price:$21.00 add to cart Rights & Permissions Free PDF Access Sign in to download PDF book and chapters Free Resources PDF SUMMARY Display this book on your site! Related Titles Solar and Space Physics: A Science for a Technological Society Plasma Physics of the Local Cosmos Other Related Titles Exploration of the Outer Heliosphere and the Local Interstellar Medium: A Workshop Report (2004) Space Studies Board (SSB) Citation Manager Export the bibliographic data for this book in your chosen format Web Search Builder Use this book's key terms to search within this book, across our collection, or across the Web. Skim This Chapter Skim this chapter and use this chapter's key terms to search within this book. Reference Finder Paste in your own text to find books that relate to your topic. Citation Manager . "Appendix C Acronyms and Abbreviations." Exploration of the Outer Heliosphere and the Local Interstellar Medium: A Workshop Report. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2004. Please select a format: Page 55   E-mail Share on facebook Facebook Share on delicious Delicious Share on stumbleupon Stumble Share on twitter Twitter More Sharing ServicesMore The following HTML text is provided to enhance online readability. Many aspects of typography translate only awkwardly to HTML. Please use the page image as the authoritative form to ensure accuracy. C Acronyms and Abbreviations ACE Advanced Composition Explorer ACR anomalous cosmic ray AU astronomical unit—mean distance of Earth from the Sun CCD charge-coupled device CIR co-rotating interaction region DOE Department of Energy ENA energetic neutral atom EUV extreme ultraviolet GAS Ulysses Interstellar Neutral Gas Experiment GCR galactic cosmic ray GMIR global merged interaction region HST Hubble Space Telescope IBEX Interstellar Boundary Explorer IMAGE Imager for Magnetosphere to Aurora Global Exploration IMF interplanetary magnetic field JIMO Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter LENA Low-Energy Neutral Atom LIC local interstellar cloud LISM local interstellar medium MHD magnetohydrodynamic MIDEX Medium-Class Explorer NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration NEP nuclear-electric propulsion Page 55 Front Matter (R1-R12) Summary (1-3) 1 Introduction (4-6) 2 Science Summary: The Interaction of the Solar Wind and the Local Interstellar Medium (7-23) 3 The Next Logical Steps (24-28) 4 An Interstellar Probe to the Boundaries of the Heliosphere and Nearby Interstellar Space (29-33) 5 Strategic Directions (34-36) Bibliography (37-46) Appendix A Statement of Task (47-50) Appendix B Workshop Agenda and Participants (51-54) Appendix C Acronyms and Abbreviations (55-56)

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Exploration of the Outer Heliosphere and the Local Interstellar Medium: A Workshop Report C Acronyms and Abbreviations ACE Advanced Composition Explorer ACR anomalous cosmic ray AU astronomical unit—mean distance of Earth from the Sun CCD charge-coupled device CIR co-rotating interaction region DOE Department of Energy ENA energetic neutral atom EUV extreme ultraviolet GAS Ulysses Interstellar Neutral Gas Experiment GCR galactic cosmic ray GMIR global merged interaction region HST Hubble Space Telescope IBEX Interstellar Boundary Explorer IMAGE Imager for Magnetosphere to Aurora Global Exploration IMF interplanetary magnetic field JIMO Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter LENA Low-Energy Neutral Atom LIC local interstellar cloud LISM local interstellar medium MHD magnetohydrodynamic MIDEX Medium-Class Explorer NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration NEP nuclear-electric propulsion

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Exploration of the Outer Heliosphere and the Local Interstellar Medium: A Workshop Report NRC National Research Council OSS Office of Space Science PASO Particle Acceleration Solar Orbiter SEC Sun-Earth Connection SMEX Small Explorer SOHO Solar and Heliospheric Observatory SWAN Solar Wind Anisotropies SWICS Solar Wind Ionic Composition Spectrometer SWIMS Solar Wind Ion Mass Spectrometer TWINS Two Wide-Angle Imaging Neutral-Atom Spectrometers

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