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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
Visions of Exploration
Opinion—On the Road to Mars: Three Stepping Stones and a Stumbling Block, by Robert Farquhar; A Message to the Future: Visions of Mars, by Peter Hollingsworth Smith; Annual Report to Our Members
Jupiter's Changing Face
Global Upheaval on Jupiter: Change is Good! by Amy Simon-Miller; Titan's North Polar Seas, by Emily Stewart Lakdawalla; Cassini at Iapetus: A Bumpy But Successful Flyby, by Tilmann Denk
Portraits of our Solar System
Worlds Beyond, by Andre Bormanis; A Night to Remember: The Planetary Society's 2007 Awards Celebration, by Andrea Carroll; 2007—The Year in Pictures, by Emily Stewart Lakdawalla
Sputnik Launches the Space Age
The Age of Space—A Fifty-Year Joyride, by James D. Burke; Out of This World Books; Defining a Global Strategy for Space Exploration, by Louis D. Friedman
Other Oceans? Other Life?
Searching for Ourselves on Mars: Finding the Viking and Mars Pathfinder Landing Sites from Orbit, by Timothy J. Parker; Celebrating the Past, Looking to the Future, by Susan Lendroth; Oceans in the Outer Solar System—And Not a Drop to Drink, by Robert Pappalardo
Examining Mars
The Pioneer Anomaly—A Mystery of Cosmic Proportions, by Bruce Betts; Searching for E.T. and the Cure for Cancer, by Amir Alexander and Charlene M. Anderson; Spirit and Opportunity—Martian Geologists, by Matt Golombek