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FIGURE 1.2 NSF and NASA’s current and nearfuture (indicated by yellow text) program of
solar and space physics missions, which form
the Heliophysics Systems Observatory (HSO).
Details about NSF facilities are available at
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.
jsp?pims_id=12808&org=AGS&from=home
and http://www.nsf.gov/div/index.jsp?div=AST;
details about NASA missions are available
at http://www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/
sunearthsystem/main/Missions_Heliophysics.
html. SOURCE: Top: Courtesy of NSF. Bottom:
Courtesy of NASA.
WSO
MSO
NSO ATST
SFO
BBSO
Jicamarca
Arecibo
NRAO
Millstone Hill
Sondrestrom
RISR
PFISR
NSO SP/KP
Figure 1-2 combined