Abstract:
The dynamics inside planetary magnetosphere’s are driven, in most cases, by coupling between a planetary environment and a stellar wind. At Earth, solar wind-magnetosphere coupling has been the focus of study for decades. Although recent space missions have unlocked many secrets of micro-scale physics at this boundary, a system level understanding of our space environment remains outside the field-of-view of current spacecraft constellations and imagers. This talk explores the use of soft X-ray emissions from charge-exchange as a tool to drastically expand our experimental field-of-view. Currently several missions are in development to study these large-scale magnetosphere dynamics using novel wide field-of-view soft X-ray imagers. This talk will provide a tour of this advancing technology and its use in developing projects such the LEXI telescope traveling to the lunar surface in early 2025 and the SMILE mission launching in mid-2025.
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