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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
Voyager 2 at Neptune
The Elusive Rings of Neptune, by Carolyn Porco; The Magnetosphere of Neptune, by S. M. Krimigis; Triton: Voyager's Finale, by R. H. Brown; The Clouds and Winds of Neptune, by Reta Beebe; Neptune's Small Satellites, by Peter Thomas
Planet Kamchatka
On the Way to Mars: The 1991 Kamchatka Rover Tests, by Charlene Anderson; Planet Kamchatka, by Dave Pieri; Europa: A World of Superlatives, by Charlene Anderson; Mapping Out a Strategy: A Report from the 1991 SETI Conference, by Thomas McDonough
Pieces of the Sky
Killer Rocks and the Celestial Police: The Search for Near-Earth Asteroids, by Donald Yeomans; Asteroids and Comets in Near-Earth Space, by Richard Binzel; It's a Small, Small World: Missions to Near-Earth Asteroids, by Donald Davis and Alan Friedlander; The Sky is Falling: The Hazard of Near-Earth Asteroids, by John Pike; Prospecting the Future: The Planetary Society Asteroid Program, by Charlene Anderson and Louis Friedman
Seeking the Beacon
A Morning With Philip Morrison: Exploring the Extraterrestrial Mind, by Paul Horowitz; A Clean, Well-Lighted Place: Mercury, by Clark Chapman; Tracking Asteroids: Why We Do It, by Jeremy Tatum; The 1991 Solar Eclipse From a Different Perspective, by Charlene Anderson
Scar on the Earth
What Now With the Soviets? by Louis Friedman; Rovers! Using Mobile Robots as Planetary Explorers, by Donna Pivirotto; Revisiting Mars: Landslide in Ophir Chasma, by Charlene Anderson; Eugene Merle Shoemaker: A Pioneer of Planetary Science, by Bettyann Kevles; And the Discoveries Continue: Asteroid Project Finds Six New Objects, by Charlene Anderson
Mars: Will We Ever Return?
Can Space Exploration Survive the Cold War? by Bruce Murray; Magellan at Venus: The Continuing Mission, by Charlene Anderson; The Soviets and SETI: The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence and Perestroika, by David Swift