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The Planetary Report is the internationally recognized flagship magazine of The Planetary Society, featuring lively articles and full-color photos to provide comprehensive coverage of discoveries on Earth and other planets.
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Download a subject index to the first 20 years of The Planetary Report (1980-2001)
Past Issues of The Planetary Report
Deflecting Danger
Who Will Survive? Ten Hardy Organisms Selected for the LIFE Project, by Amir Alexander; The Quest for the Next Killer Asteroid—Before it Finds Us! by Steve Chesley; Annual Report to Our Members
Beyond The Moon
Bootleg Postcards: Amateurs Participating in Space Missions, by Doug Ellison; Beyond the Moon: A New Roadmap for Human Space Exploration in the 21st Century, by The Roadmap Team; Looking Forward to a New Year of Exploration! by Louis D. Friedman
A Wider View
The Planetary Society's All-Sky Optical SETI: Where Are We Now? by Paul Horowitz and his Research Group, Harvard University Optical SETI; 2008—The Year in Pictures, by Emily Stewart Lakdawalla; Help Us Celebrate the Hubble Space Telescope, by Neil deGrasse Tyson
A New Mercury Revealed
Phoenix: Success in the Martian Arctic, by Bruce Betts; Out of This World Books; Messenger Arrives at Mercury, by Ralph L. McNutt, Jr. and Sean C. Solomon
Riders on the Earth Together
Planet Earth Special Issue with Guest Editor Charles F. Kennel; Earth is, After All, a Planet, by Charles F. Kennel and Louis D. Freidman; The Earth's Changing Environment as Seen From Space, by Michael D. King; Connecting Policy and Science: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, by Richard C. J. Sommerville; As Riders on Earth Together: Monitoring Our Changing Planet, by Berrien Moore III
Alien Volcanoes
NASA at 50: A Personal View, by James D. Burke; LIFE Flying to Phobos and Back! by Bruce Betts; Alien Volcanoes—A Solar System Tour, by Michael Carrol and Rosaly M. C. Lopes