A Rolling Programme in Space and Planetary Physics

将在这一滚动方案中进行的工作将在三个独立和相关的领域进行。前两个领域包括了解太阳系中各种等离子体的物理特性。第三个领域包括空间仪器，它设计和建造在空间中进行测量的仪器，使我们能够解释和理解这些环境。在太空中观察等离子体的过程为我们提供了一种研究实验室等离子体和天体物理中发生的基本过程的方法，这些过程不容易测量。我们希望了解太阳如何影响地球，到达地球的高能粒子的起源和性质是什么，太阳如何影响我们太阳系中的各种天体，它们的大气和附近的等离子体环境，以及这些天体如何反过来影响它们周围的环境。

The work to be carried out in this rolling programme will be carried out in 3 separate and related areas. The first two areas cover gaining an understanding the physics of the variety of plasmas in our solar system. The third area consists of space instrumentation which designs and builds the instruments which make the measurements in space which enables us to interpret and understand these environments. Observing plasma processes out in space provides us with a way to study the fundamental processes that occur in both laboratory plasmas and astrophysical ones which are not as easy to measure. We wish to understand how the sun affects the Earth, what the origins and properties of the energetic particles are which reach the Earth, how the Sun influences the variety of bodies in our solar system, their atmospheres and their nearby plasma environments and how those bodies in turn affect the environment around them.