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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
Comets: Mementos of Creation
Comets: Mementos of Creation, by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan; Changing Views of Mars, by Stephen Larson; The Concept of Extraterrestrial Intelligence—An Emerging Cosmology? by Steven Dick; Lunar Polar Explorers, by James Burke
Diamonds from Space
A Talk With Roald Zinnurovich Sagdeev, by Louis Friedman; The Discovery of Stardust in Meteorites, by John Larimer; Planetary Exploration—A Third Great Age of Discovery, by Stephen Pyne; Continuing SETI: Scientists Share Findings at Toronto Conference, by Thomas McDonough; Mars Watch Chronicles, by Susan Lendroth
Mars—A Soviet Destination
The Way to Mars, by V. Glushko, Y. Semenov, and L. Gorshkov; A Soviet View of a Lunar Base, by Vladislav V. Shevchenko; Oceans on Venus—The Great Debate, by Charlene Anderson; The Water That Got Away, by James Kasting; Born Wet or Bone Dry? by David Grinspoon
Onward to Mars
The United States' Future in Space: The Candidates Share Their Visions, by Tim Lynch; The Mars Balloon: A Novel Approach to a Treacherous Terrain, by Louis Friedman; Outbound to Mars: The Phobos Mission is Launched, by James Burke; Phobos—A Surface Mine or an International Park? by Iván Almár, Andras Horváth, and Erzsébet Illés
In Search of Planet X
The Saying of Science, by Jonathan Eberhart; Planet X: Fact or Fiction? by John Anderson; Humans to Mars: The Mission That NASA Did Not Fly, by Edward Ezell; Mars Watch '88: A Close Encounter of the Red Kind, by Stephen Edberg and Susan Lendroth
Mysterious Mars
Pursuing the Challenge, by Carl Pilcher and Adriana Ocampo; Planets Around Other Stars? Some Exciting New Evidence, by Bruce Campbell; Tracking Asteroids—The Planetary Society Supports Astrometry Project, by Jeremy Tatum; Some Mysteries of Planetary Science, by Carl Sagan