Abstract
The International Heliophysical Year (IHY), an international program of scientific collaboration to understand the external drivers of planetary environments, will be conducted in 2007. This will be a major international event of great interest to the member States. The M Y will involve the deployment of new instrumentation, new observations from the ground and in space, and an education component. The IHY 2007 will coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the International Geophysical Year (IGY) in 1957. The IGY was organized to study global phenomena of the Earth and Geospace involving about 60,000 scientists from 66 nations, working at thousands of stations, around the world to obtain simultaneous, global observations from the ground and space. Building on results obtained during IGY 1957, the IHY will expand to the study of universal processes in the solar system that affect the interplanetary and terrestrial environments. The study of energetic events in the solar system will pave the way for safe human space travel to the Moon and planets in the future, and it will serve to inspire the next generation of space physicists.
Highlights
On October 4, 1957, only 53 years after the beginning of flight, the launch of Sputnik 1 marked the beginning of the space age; as mankind took the first steps to leaving the protected environment of Earth’s atmosphere
50 years later, we have the unique opportunity advance our knowledge of the global heliosphere and its interaction with planetary bodies and the interstellar medium through the International Heliophysical Year (IHY) in 2007
We have the unique opportunity to further advance our knowledge of the global heliosphere, space weather and its interaction with planets, and the interstellar medium through the International Heliophysical Year (IHY) in 2007 currently underway
Summary
On October 4, 1957, only 53 years after the beginning of flight, the launch of Sputnik 1 marked the beginning of the space age; as mankind took the first steps to leaving the protected environment of Earth’s atmosphere. Discovery of the radiation belts, the solar wind, and the structure of Earth’s magnetosphere prepared the way for the inevitable human exploration to follow. It is inevitable that, during the 50 years, exploration of the solar system including the Moon, Mars and the outer planets will be the focus of the space program, and like 50 years ago, unmanned probes will lead the way, followed by human exploration. We have the unique opportunity to further advance our knowledge of the global heliosphere, space weather and its interaction with planets, and the interstellar medium through the International Heliophysical Year (IHY) in 2007 currently underway. The IHY has four main objectives, (1) the comparative study of Universal Processes that are essential for understanding planetary environments in a number of solar system settings, (2) the deployment of distributed arrays of small instruments to observe global phenomena in the ionosphere and heliosphere, (3) the development of international collaborations to foster space science research, and (4) the communication the excitement of space science to the public
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