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Report Series: Committee on Solar and Space Physics Agile Responses to Short-Notice Rideshare Opportunities for the NASA Heliophysics Division (2020) / Chapter Skim
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3 Science Enabled by an Agile Rideshare Program
Pages 7-9

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... Examples of solar and heliospheric science relevant to space weather and space climatology include (but are not limited to) characterizing solar activity through remote sensing observations of solar irradiance, magnetism, and eruptions from multiple vantages, characterizing the state and variability of the solar wind through measurements of plasma and fields throughout the heliosphere, and characterizing the evolution of energetic particle populations with respect to their composition and energy distribution.
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... Finding: An agile rideshare program that exploits increased launch opportunities would augment existing temporally continuous observations, which are central to space weather monitoring and space climatology. SYSTEM OR CONTEXTUAL SCIENCE A spatially distributed network of measurements strengthens the understanding of the coupled heliophysical system and provides contextual information for other missions beyond their primary mission goals.
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... Taken together, these findings support the committee's conclusion, as follows: Conclusion: Science suited to an agile rideshare program can be categorized into three groups: space weather and space climatology enabled by temporally continuous observations; systems and contextual science enabled by spatially distributed observations; and exploratory science enabled by novel observations (e.g., technology demonstrators and new vantage points)
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  • atmospheric science
  • magnetospheric science
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  • solar wind
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