Dione: A Pathfinder Mission for Understanding the Ionosphere-ThermosphereResponses to Magnetospheric Forcing at High Latitudes

Eftyhia Zesta1, Marilia Samara2, George V Khazanov3, Gregory Duane Earle4, Ryan Davidson5, Nikolaos Paschalidis6, Glyn Collinson7, Ellen Robertson7, Greg Dechaine8 and Muzar Jah8, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (3)NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States, (5)Air Force Research Laboratory, Albuquerque, United States, (6)NASA/GSFC-Heliophysics Sci, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (7)Catholic University of America, Washington, United States, (8)NASA-GSFC, Greenbelt, United States