Focused Space Weather Strategy for Securing Earth, and Human Exploration of the Moon and Mars

This white paper recognizes gaps in observations that will, when addressed, much improve solar radiation hazard and geomagnetic storm forecasting.

Radiation forecasting depends on observations of the entire “Solar Radiation Hemisphere” that we will define. Mars exploration needs strategic placement of radiation-relevant observations.

We also suggest an orbital solution that will improve geomagnetic storm forecasting through improved in situ and solar/heliospheric remote sensing.

A. Posner, N. Arge, K. Cho, B. Heber, F. Effenberger, T. Y. Chen, S. Krucker, P. Kühl, O. Malandraki, Y.-D. Park, A. Pulkkinen, N. Raouafi, S. K. Solanki, O. C. StCyr, R. D. Strauss

Comments: Heliophysics 2050 White Paper
Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM); Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP); Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
Cite as: arXiv:2301.04136 [astro-ph.IM] (or arXiv:2301.04136v1 [astro-ph.IM] for this version)
Submission history
From: Thomas Y. Chen
[v1] Mon, 9 Jan 2023 21:33:36 UTC (2,094 KB)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.04136

Space Medicine, Space Weather, Artemis