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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
Galileo Encounters Earth
The Future of the U.S. Space Program, by Norman Augustine; From Siberia to Mars, by Chris McKay, E. Imre Friedmann, and Michael Meyer; Galileo Encounters Earth and Venus, by Charlene Anderson; Tracking Spacecraft: The Deep Space Network in Spain, by Bettyann Kevles
The Mars Balloon: It Works!
Humans to Mars: Can We Justify the Cost? by Carl Sagan; Mining the Air: Resources of Other Worlds May Reduce Mission Costs, by Kumar Ramohalli; Wind, Sand and Mars: The 1990 Tests of the Mars Balloon and SNAKE, by Charlene Anderson; Eureka! The Recovery of 1982DB, by Eleanor Helin
Strange Chemistry
The Strange Gases of Jupiter and Saturn, by Keith Noll; Planetary Maps: Passports for the Mind, by Charlene Anderson; Magellan at Venus: The Mapping Begins, by Charlene Anderson; Hungary: An Able Partner in Exploration, by Karoly Szegó
10th Anniversary Issue
The Next Ten Years: The Planetary Society's Officers Look to its Future, by Carl Sagan, Bruce Murray, and Louis Friedman; A Decade of SETI, by Thomas McDonough; The 1990s: A New Decade of Discovery?; Flying Snakes on Mars: The Planetary Society Mars Balloon Project, by Harris
Look Homeward, Voyager
From the Moon Rover to the Mars Rover, by Alexander Kermurjian; The Family Gallery; Pushing Back the Frontier: A Mission to the Pluto-Charon System, by Robert Farquhar and S. Alan Stern
NASA—Recapturing the Spirit
The Mars Balloon Relay, by Jacques Blamont; The Key to Mars, Titan and Beyond? Nuclear Rockets Using Indigenous Propellants, by Robert Zubrin; European Space Agency Aims High—At Mars, by Agustin Chicarro; A Little Warmth Against the Big Chill: The Evolution of Comets in the Oort Cloud, by S. Alan Stern; Can NASA Still Do the Job? by David Salisbury