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I. Summary and Recommendations
Pages 98-102

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From page 98...
... In this section, we present the major recommendations of highest priority, call attention to those ongoing and planned programs that are fundamental to the W OIR science program for the 1980's, and summarize the scientific achievements and opportunities that have led us to these recommendations.
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From page 99...
... This facility, incorporating a telescope in the 1-m class, will provide high spectral resolution in the wavelength region 900-1200 A, with possible extension down to a few hundred angstroms. For technical reasons these wavelength regions are inaccessible to Space Telescope (ST)
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From page 100...
... , a Shuttleborne telescope that will provide the capability to study solar structures and their evolution, the dynamics of active regions, and solar magnetic fields with significantly higher spatial resolution than previously possible. The Panel furthermore wishes to underscore its belief that various sources of new federal funds are critically needed for operation of ground-based optical observatories.
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From page 101...
... missions; we endorse the Solar Coronal Explorer to study acceleration processes in the solar wind; and we endorse the Solar Dynamics Explorer, which will provide an opportunity to measure solar internal structure and dynamics. The Kuiper Airborne Observatory is, and the Spacelab payload program promises to become, extremely successful scientifically.
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From page 102...
... Planetary probes have uncovered phenomena such as volcanoes on To and atmospheric circulation on Jupiter that could yield important geologic and atmospheric information if studied systematically from near-Earth orbit. Despite the remarkable advances of the past decade, however, many of the most significant questions confronting astronomy today remain unanswered.
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