Mission Options for SCADM in the 1980's
Abstract
Recent insights into the workings of the solar system are reviewed as factors to be considered when formulating key questions to be answered during a large scale program to study the solar cycle. The main objectives of the Solar Cycle and Dynamics Mission are to determine the causes (physical origins and mechanisms) of the solar cycle and the effects of these mechanisms on the heliosphere, the vast region that includes the corona, interplanetary medium, and the terrestrial environment. The mission should be able to obtain synoptic data on solar variability associated with the cycle, and over at least a fraction of a single 11-year cycle.
- Publication:
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NASA Conference Publication
- Pub Date:
- February 1980
- Bibcode:
- 1980NASCP2098...31N
- Keywords:
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- Mission Planning;
- Solar Cycles;
- Spaceborne Astronomy;
- Sun;
- Interplanetary Medium;
- Solar Corona;
- Spaceborne Experiments;
- Solar Physics