Citation:
Yong Wei, XinAn Yue, ZhaoJin Rong, YongXin Pan, WeiXing Wan, RiXiang Zhu,
2017: A planetary perspective on Earth’s space environment evolution, Earth and Planetary Physics, 1, 63-67.
doi: 10.26464/epp2017009
2017, 1(1): 63-67. doi: 10.26464/epp2017009
A planetary perspective on Earth’s space environment evolution
| 1. | Key Laboratory of Earth and Planetary Physics, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China |
| 2. | College of Earth Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China |
| 3. | Institutions of Earth Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China |
The planet Earth is an integrated system, in which its multi-spheres are coupled, from the space to the inner core. Whether the space environment in short to long terms has been controlled by the earth’s interior process is contentious. In the past several decades, space weather and space climate have been extensively studied based on either observation data measured directly by man-made instruments or ancient data inferred indirectly from some historical medium of past thousands of years. The acquired knowledge greatly helps us to understand the dynamic processes in the space environment of modern Earth, which has a strong magnetic dipole and an oxygen-rich atmosphere. However, no data is available for ancient space weather and climate (>5 ka). Here, we propose to take the advantage of " space-diversity” to build a " generalized planetary space family”, to reconcile the ancient space environment evolution of planet Earth from modern observations of other planets in our solar system. Such a method could also in turn give us a valuable insight into other planets’ evolution.
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