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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
Farewell, Mir
Farewell to a Cold Warrior: Mir Station Obituary, by Roald Sagdeev; A Bold New Voyage: The Planetary Society Prepares to Fly a Solar Sail, by Louis Friedman; The 2001 Shoemaker NEO Grant Awardees: A World of Observing Experience, by Daniel Durda; Odd Planet Out: What’s Up With Pluto Exploration? by Jennifer Vaughn
Evolving Visions
Opinion: Systems Engineering—A Personal Memoir, by James D. Burke; Odd Asteroids and Closet Comets: The Distinction Blurs, by Don Yeomans; The Express to Mars, by Robert Burnham; Hunting the Elusive
SETI@home Searches the Sky
Opinion: No Threat? No Way! by John Rummel, Margaret Race, and Kenneth Nealson; Life From Space? Testing Panspermia With Martian Meteorite ALH84001, by Benjamin Weiss and Joseph Kirschvink; SETI@home and The Planetary Society—The Bond Strengthens, by Charlene Anderson; The Next Generation of Mars Explorers—Introducing the Red Rover Goes to Mars Team, by Rachel Zimmerman
Cometary Suicides
Flowers for Mars, by Chris McKay; Hunting Snowballs in Hell, by Robert Burnham; Unearthing Seeps and Springs on Mars, by Bruce Jakosky; An Antarctic Idyll, by Jim Burke
Mysterious Mars
Contamination From Mars: No Threat, by Robert Zubrin; What Might Have Been: The Mars Polar Lander and Mars Climate Orbiter Losses, by Andre Bormanis; Mars Global Surveyor: Performing Daily, 687 Days a Year, by Jennifer Vaughn; Human Exploration of Space: Fact and Fantasy, by Charlene Anderson
Facing the Impact Hazard
Astronomy: Eyes Wide Shut, by David Jewitt; Shoemaker Grants: A Little Money, Lots of NEOs, by Dan Durda; Human Exploration of Near-Earth Asteroids, by Dan Durda; NEAR Shoemaker Goes to Work, by Charlene Anderson