The recent Decadal Survey in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pathways to Discovery in Astronomy and Astrophysics for the 2020s, stated the following:
"To fully address the survey’s science goals for solar and stellar astrophysics, very high-resolution observations in the restricted field-of-view of DKIST would need to be supplemented by global synoptic measurements. Two critical measurement gaps exist that require investment in the coming decade: Measurements of the magnetic field in the global corona and greatly improved synoptic observations of the solar photosphere. Such observations of the Sun are also critical to the national priority to better understand and predict space weather and its effects at Earth and elsewhere."
Cover of "Pathways to Discovery in Astronomy and Astrophysics for the 2020s"