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Solar and Space Physics--A Science for a Technological Society
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... The disciplines that comprise solar and space physics are intel lectually rich and vital to a society increas ingly dependent on technologies sensitive to the near-Earth space environment. In 2010, NASA and the National Science Foundation asked the National Research Council to assemble a committee of experts (the "decadal survey committee")
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... Illustrated here are the and plasma waves occur over a broad range of scales in both space and termination shock, the boundary layer where the expanding time. The transport of energy and momentum through this environment bubble of solar wind particles abruptly slows down when it begins to press into the interstellar medium; the intermediate exhibits varying degrees of complex feedback, requiring research techzone of slower-moving solar wind particles that forms the niques that treat heliophysics as a coupled system: heliophysics is thus heliosheath; and finally the heliopause, the boundary be- inherently a system science.
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... Heliophysics research seeks to understand the history, evolution, and detailed workings of the Sun and solar wind, to characterize and understand Earth's space environment and upper atmosphere, to determine how the heliosphere interacts with the galaxy beyond, and to study responses at Earth and throughout the helio sphere to solar events and periodic variability.
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