A TOP PRIORITY QUESTION FOR HELIOPHYSICS IS TO UNDERSTAND /WHAT CONTROLS WHEN AND WHERE IONOSPHERIC OUTOWS OCCUR?" [2012 NRC DECADAL SURVEY MEDICI MISSION Q1B]. IONO- SPHERIC ESCAPE IS AN IMPORTANT SOURCE OF PLASMA FOR THE MAGNETOSPHERE INUENCING MAGNETIC RECONNECTION RATES (SHAY AND SWISDAK 2004) CHANGING MAGNETOSPHERIC CONVECTION (GLOCER ET AL. 2009) AND INNER MAGNETOSPHERIC PLASMA COMPOSITION (WELLING ET AL. 2011).
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