Advances in Earth Science ›› 2017, Vol. 32 ›› Issue (1): 15-20. doi: 10.11867/j.issn.1001-8166.2017.01.0015

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Comparative Planetary Space Physics

Yong Wei 1, 4( ), Zhaojin Rong 1, Jun Zhong 1, Lihui Chai 1, Xin’an Yue 1, Libo Liu 1, Sheng Yu 2, Rixiang Zhu 3, Weixing Wan 1   

  1. 1.Key Laboratory of Earth and Planetary Physics, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China
    2.Department of Earth Sciences, National Natural Science Foundation of China, Beijing 100085,China
    3.State Key Laboratory of Lithospheric Evolution, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China
    4.College of Earth Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100049, China
  • Received:2016-09-22 Revised:2016-12-02 Online:2017-01-20 Published:2017-01-10
  • About author:

    First author:Wei Yong (1981-), male, Pingyu County, He’nan Province, Professor. Research areas include planetary space physics and geomagnetism.E-mail:weiy@mail.iggcas.ac.cn

  • Supported by:
    Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China “Planetary space physics”(No.41525016);the National Natural Science Foundation of China “Parameterization of venusian ion escape rate based on Venus Express data”(No.41474155).

Yong Wei, Zhaojin Rong, Jun Zhong, Lihui Chai, Xin’an Yue, Libo Liu, Sheng Yu, Rixiang Zhu, Weixing Wan. Comparative Planetary Space Physics[J]. Advances in Earth Science, 2017, 32(1): 15-20.

It has been 60 years since the space physics as new branch of geophysics started to grow in 1957 when the space age was opened by a small satellite called sputnik. The knowledge of Earth and planetary space has been significantly extended and deepened, but the questions we are facing today are more challenging. A consensus reached is that we have to regard the Earth (planet) as an integrated system including all spheres from the inner core to the magnetosphere, and we should try to investigate some questions standing on the ground of interdisciplinary study, especially those questions related to Earth’s (planetary) evolution. Space environment as the outer part of a planetary system, commonly exists in all planets but also exhibits strong diversity. Here, we introduce the short history of basic ideas and methods of comparative study, the advantages on understanding of some issues of global scale, and the prospect from comparative perspective.

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