THIS MISSION WILL DIRECTLY ADDRESS TWO OVERARCHING SCIENCE GOALS FROM THE SCIENCE MISSION DIRECTORATE SCIENCE PLAN FOR 2014. FIRSTLY BY PROVIDING THE FIRST OBSERVATIONAL MEASUREMENTS OF A FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICAL PROPERTY OF OUR PLANET ENDURANCE WILL CONTRIBUTE TO GOAL 1: /EXPLORE THE PHYSICAL PROCESSES IN THE SPACE ENVIRONMENT FROM THE SUN TO THE EARTH AND THROUGHOUT THE SOLAR SYSTEM." ENDURANCE WILL ALSO ENABLE A PHYSICAL UNDERSTANDING OF HOW SOLAR EUV DRIVES PLANETARY AMBIPOLAR FIELDS ADDRESSING GOAL 2: ADVANCE OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE CONNECTIONS THAT LINK THE SUN THE EARTH PLANETARY SPACE ENVIRONMENTS AND THE OUTER REACHES OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM". ENDURANCE ALSO SUPPORTS THE SWIM-2 SCIENCE GOAL FROM THE 2012 NRC DECADAL SURVEY (IDENTIFY THE MECHANISMS THAT CONTROL THE PRODUCTION [...] OF ENERGETIC PARTICLES IN THE MAGNETOSPHERE) THROUGH PROVIDING NEW INSIGHTS INTO A KEY DRIVER OF THE POLAR WIND A MAJOR SOURCE OF PLASMA FOR EARTH'S MAGNETOSPHERE.