ROSES 2023: B.20 Heliophysics Tools and Methods
Funding Agency:
- NASA
The overarching goal of NASA’s Heliophysics Division is to understand the Sun and its interactions with the Earth and the Solar System, including space weather. In this framework, the Heliophysics Research Program is guided by Science 2019-2024: A Vision for Scientific Excellence and any more up to date versions of the Science Plan (available at https://science.nasa.gov/about-us/science-strategy) and by the 2013 National Research Council Decadal Strategy for Solar and Space Physics report, Solar and Space Physics: A Science for a Technological Society (www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=13060). Heliophysics research addresses these recommendations by implementing a program to achieve all of the goals and objectives in the Science Plan and Decadal Strategy report, summarized by these combined objectives: • Explore and characterize the physical processes in the space environment from the Sun to the heliopause and throughout the universe • Advance our understanding of the Sun’s activity, and the connections between solar variability and Earth and planetary space environments, the outer reaches of our solar system, and the interstellar medium • Develop the knowledge and capability to detect and predict extreme conditions in space to protect life and society and to safeguard human and robotic explorers beyond Earth. The Heliophysics Research Program supports investigations in all research regimes of Heliophysics. The program supports investigations of the Sun, including processes taking place throughout the solar interior and its atmosphere, as well as the evolution and cyclic activity of the Sun. It supports investigations of the origin and behavior of the solar wind, transient structures, energetic particles, and magnetic fields in the heliosphere and their interaction with the Earth and other planets, as well as with the interstellar medium. The program supports investigations of the physics of magnetospheres, including fundamental interactions of plasma wave-particle interactions and particles with guide fields, as well as coupling to the solar wind and ionospheres. It supports investigations of the physics of the terrestrial mesosphere, thermosphere, and ionosphere, neutral and ionized, and coupling of these phenomena to the lower atmosphere and magnetosphere. It supports investigations focused on processes that create space weather events, and investigations to enable a capability for predicting future space weather events.
Multiple awards
May 31, 2023
Reinhard Friedel, Telephone: (202) 281-6360 Email: reinhard.h.friedel@nasa.gov