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Public outreach is an important and essential aspect of the work done by the MIST community. There are several programmes that highlight the work that we do:

Find out about solar system science in the UK by visiting sunearthplan.net


It is an exciting time for exploration of our neighbours in the solar system with several current and upcoming planetary missions.


Discover when aurora is visible from your back garden by signing up to aurorawatch


Help Solar Scientists spot explosions on the Sun and track them across space to Earth by joining Solar Storm Watch. You could make a new scientific discovery!

MIST Briefing Papers

In addition MIST scientists are working to develop a series of briefing papers to provide information on areas of specific UK expertise. It is hoped that these executive summaries will help to inform the public and media of the work carried out in the UK by our community whilst also plugging holes in the understanding of policy-makers and funding agencies as to the relevance and importance of our work.

The first two topics that have been covered are Space Weather and Planetary Exploration.

Planetary Exploration		Space Weather

Many thanks to Gabby Provan, Chris Arridge, Stan Cowley and Dave Andrews (Planetary Exploration) and Jim Wild, Lyndsay Fletcher, Alan Thompson and Mike Hapgood (Space Weather) for devoting the time and effort to create these papers.

We intend to develop the next set of papers by the Spring MIST. The following are further topics that have been identifed but are not exhaustive.

• In-situ measurements of space plasmas
• EISCAT 3-D
• Climate and vertical coupling
• Fundamental space plasma physics
• Geomagnetism
• Ionospheric science
• The Aurora

If you wish to contribute to any of these topics or if you have an idea for an alternative paper please do get in touch with a member of MIST council.