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Solar and Space Physics: A Science for a Technological Society
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Cover: Insets, from the top: Solar Dynamics Observatory, full-disk multiwavelength extreme ultraviolet image of the
Sun (NASA/GSFC/AIA); depiction of a coronal mass ejection and Earthís magnetosphere (Steele Hill/NASA); Advanced
Modular Incoherent Scatter Radars at Resolute Bay (Craig Heinselman, EISCAT); ultraviolet image of the southern polar
region of Saturn with its aurora (here shown inverted) from the Hubble Space Telescope (NASA/ESA/J. Clarke, Boston
University/Z. Levay, STScI); depiction of the regions of the heliosphere (NASA); and bow shock around the star LL
Orionis (NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA). Background images: View from the International
Space Station of the Midwestern United States and the aurora borealis (NASA).
Copies of this report are available free of charge from:
Space Studies Board
National Research Council
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Washington, DC 20001
Additional copies of this report are available from the National Academies Press, 500 Fifth Street, NW, Keck 360,
Washington, DC 20001; (800) 624-242 or (202) 334-3133; http://www.nap.edu.
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Solar and Space Physics: A Science for a Technological Society
THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES PRESS
500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001
NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research
Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy
of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine. The members of the committee responsible for the report were chosen
for their special competences and with regard for appropriate balance.
This study is based on work supported by Contract NNH06CE15B between the National Academy of Sciences and
the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and Grant AGS-1050550 between the National Academy of Sciences and the National Science Foundation. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in
this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the agencies that provided support
for the project.
International Standard Book Number-3: 978-0-309-16428-3
International Standard Book Number-0: 0-309-16428-1
Library of Congress Control Number: 2013940083
Cover: Insets, from the top: Solar Dynamics Observatory, full-disk multiwavelength extreme ultraviolet image of the
Sun (NASA/GSFC/AIA); depiction of a coronal mass ejection and Earthís magnetosphere (Steele Hill/NASA); Advanced
Modular Incoherent Scatter Radars at Resolute Bay (Craig Heinselman, EISCAT); ultraviolet image of the southern polar
region of Saturn with its aurora (here shown inverted) from the Hubble Space Telescope (NASA/ESA/J. Clarke, Boston
University/Z. Levay, STScI); depiction of the regions of the heliosphere (NASA); and bow shock around the star LL
Orionis (NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA). Background images: View from the International
Space Station of the Midwestern United States and the aurora borealis (NASA).
Copies of this report are available free of charge from:
Space Studies Board
National Research Council
500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001
Additional copies of this report are available from the National Academies Press, 500 Fifth Street, NW, Keck 360,
Washington, DC 20001; (800) 624-242 or (202) 334-3133; http://www.nap.edu.
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Printed in the United States of America