SM31C:
Bringing Space Down to Earth: Space Physics in the Laboratory I

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Session ID#: 25435

Session Description:
Laboratory experiments provide an important complement to spacecraft missions to study key questions at the forefront of space physics, including turbulence, magnetic reconnection, particle acceleration, and instabilities. The ability to control parameters, better diagnostic access, and reproducibility are significant advantages that experiments have over spacecraft measurements, making them an important addition to theoretical studies, numerical simulations, and spacecraft observations of space plasmas. Experiments can be performed to determine the physics underlying observed phenomena, test analysis techniques, and inform future spacecraft missions. Because the laboratory and space physics communities often don’t communicate, this session convenes a panel of experts from both communities to highlight common ground, covering new scientific results, analysis techniques, and open questions. These topics are relevant to current and future space missions, including Magnetospheric MultiScale, Van Allen Probes, Solar Probe Plus, GOLD, ICON, Juno, Cassini, and MAVEN.
Primary Convener:  Amy M Keesee, University of New Hampshire, Physics and Space Science Center, Durham, United States
Convener:  Gregory G Howes, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States
Chairs:  Amy M Keesee, University of New Hampshire, Physics and Space Science Center, Durham, United States and Gregory G Howes, University of Iowa, Physics and Astronomy, Iowa City, IA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Amy M Keesee, University of New Hampshire, Physics and Space Science Center, Durham, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • P - Planetary Sciences
  • SA - SPA-Aeronomy
  • SH - SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics
Index Terms:

5494 Instruments and techniques [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLID SURFACE PLANETS]
5794 Instruments and techniques [PLANETARY SCIENCES: FLUID PLANETS]
7594 Instruments and techniques [SOLAR PHYSICS, ASTROPHYSICS, AND ASTRONOMY]
7831 Laboratory studies and experimental techniques [SPACE PLASMA PHYSICS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

A Space Plasma Physicist Goes to the Lab (Invited) (221231)
Craig Kletzing, University of Iowa, Physics and Astronomy, Iowa City, United States
Complementarity of Laboratory and Space Experiments on Reconnexion (Invited) (209441)
Thomas Earle Moore, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Sci. Div., Greenbelt, MD, United States and Li-Jen Chen, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States; University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
Simulating Extraterrestrial Ices in the Laboratory (Invited) (276046)
Daniel F Berisford1, Elizabeth M. Carey2, Kevin P Hand3 and Mathieu Choukroun3, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States
Titan's Lakes in a Beaker (Invited) (232215)
Robert P Hodyss, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States

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