Heliophysics Science enabled by Lunar Orbiting Platforms
Abstract
The current emphasis on returning to the Moon with a lunar orbiting platform provides an impetus and opportunity to explore newly enabled investigations that are relevant to heliophysics and to understand the coupling of the sun and its atmosphere to the magnetized space environment surrounding the Earth. To that end, a workshop focused on the science that the NASA Deep Space Gateway (DSG) platform enables was held with focused topics including heliophysics, space weather/radiation, Earth science, astrophysics, lunar and planetary, crosscutting technologies, telerobotics, human exploration support, and sample collection/return. Following this, a session at the Triennial Earth-Sun Summit (TESS) focused on the heliophysics science enabled by the DSG was convened. This talk will summarize the major heliophysics themes of those two meetings and provide context for science strategies that take advantage of lunar orbiting platforms, and for technologies required to realize the full benefit of the synergy of human and robotic exploration in the vicinity of the Moon.
- Publication:
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42nd COSPAR Scientific Assembly
- Pub Date:
- July 2018
- Bibcode:
- 2018cosp...42E3213S