Geophysics, space physics, geodesy, and their contributions to human civilization

作者：H. S. Fu, Liang Zhao, Zhiwei Li, Yibo Wang, Z. Li, Zhouchuan Huang, Huihong Cheng · 发表于：Chinese Science Bulletin (Chinese Version) · 年份：2025 · DOI：10.1360/csb-2025-0623 · 被引用次数：1 · 研究领域：Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life

Geophysics, Space Physics, and Geodesy are a fundamental discipline of the Earth sciences and also an important branch of the natural sciences. Specifically, the geophysics aims to reveal the formation and evolution of the Earth system based on the detection and analyses of the physical fields on the Earth’s surface and inside the Earth’s interior, and finally provides a scientific basis for the resource exploration, energy utilization, natural disaster monitoring and prevention, and also the environment protection and treatment. The space physics mainly focuses on the terrestrial space environment and solar-system space environment and also the interaction between them, and aims to reveal the formation mechanisms and evolution features of a serious mysterious phenomena such as the solar eruption, solar wind, geomagnetic storm, magnetospheric substorm, and aurora, and finally on the basis of such observations and analyses forecasts the space weather accurately and alleviates the impact of solar eruption on the Earth’s environment. The geodesy focuses on a specific reference frame of time and space, precisely measures the shape and gravity field of the Earth and other planets, and thereby establishes a model for them and continuously monitors their temporal evolution, and consequently aims to provide a spatiotemporal reference for human beings during the determination and description of the universe. Historically speaking, the geophysics, space physics, and geodesy have played...