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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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Past Issues of The Planetary Report
SETI: Is Intelligence Commonplace?
The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence: Scientific Quest of Hopeful Folly? A Debate Between Ernst Mayr and Carl Sagan; New Eyes for Mars: Testing Cameras for the Mars '96 Mission, by Gerhard Neukum; Fly to Saturn With Cassini: Society Members Invited Along, by Charlene Anderson
Project BETA: The Search Begins
A Quantum Leap for SETI: Project BETA Goes Online, by Tom McDonough; International Report: The European Space Agency Faces the Future, by Roy Gibson; From the Scabland to Mars: Preparing for the Pathfinder Mission, by Kari Magee; Research Update: Near-Earth Asteroid Studies Continue, by Richard Binzel
Comet Hale-Bopp is Coming
Comet Hale-Bopp: Coming to a Sky Near You, by Don Yeomans; Mars Pathfinder: Blazing a New Trail, by Matthew Golombek; Mars Global Surveyor: What to Look for in the Results, by Michael Malin; Mars '96: Science and Exploration on a Grand Scale, by V. I. Moroz
More Steps to Mars
What is the Value of Space Exploration? by Charlene Anderson; Steps to Mars II: A Conference Report, by Louis Friedman; On Target: Galileo Approaches the Jovian System, by Charlene Anderson; The Fate of the Galileo Probe, by Jonathan Lunine and Rich Young
Hubble Space Telescope Spies on the Neighbors
Japan Looks to the Future: A Long-Term Lunar Plan, by Tamiya Nomura; The New Pluto Express, by Jackie Giuliano; Romancing the Stone: The Near-Earth Asteroid Rendezvous, by Robert Farquhar and Joseph Veverka; Traveling Through a Mirror: The Hubble Space Telescope Studies the Planets, by Charlene Anderson
Voyager: The Discoveries Continue
What's New, Voyager: The Discoveries Continue, by Ellis Miner; Journey to the End of the Dinosaur Era: A Society Expedition to Belize, by Adriana Ocampo