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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
The Nucleus of Halley's Comet
Sifting Through Starlight: Evidence for Circumstellar Dust Disks, by Lewis Hobbs; Visiting a Comet: ICE Flies Through Giacobini-Zinner, by Edward Smith
The Rings of Uranus from Voyager 2
Japan: A New Factor in Space, by Steve Burgess; Encounter! Voyager 2 Explores the Uranian System, by Clark R. Chapman
South Pole of Mars
The Planetary Society: A Short History, by David F. Salisbury; On the Prehistory of The Planetary Society, by Carl Sagan; Looking Back, by Bruce Murray; Five Years of Success and Failures, by Louis D. Friedman; Steps to Mars: A Look at the Past and the Future; The Mars Institute: Building Momentum for Human Exploration of Mars, by Christopher McKay; SETI and The Planetary Society, by Paul Horowitz; The Asteroid Project Shows Results, by Eleanor Helin
Planet or Star?
Van Biesbroeck 8B: Brown Dwarf and Extraordinary Planet, by Donald W. McCarthy, Jr.; What is a Planet? by Jonathan Eberhart; Approaching Uranus: Voyager 2 Prepares to Encounter the Seventh Planet, by Reta Beebe and Jay Bergstralh
Saturn's Rings
Taking the Measure of Saturn's Rings, by Len Tyler and Dick Simpson; Twenty-Five Years of Searching: SETI Scientists Celebrate and Anniversary, by Woodruff T. Sullivan, III
Halley's Comet
Through History with Halley's Comet, by Donald K. Yeomans; Looking Into Halley's Comet, by Julian Loewe and the staff of The Planetary Report; A Talk with Fred Whipple, by Kelly Beatty; The International Halley Watch: An Experiment in Cooperation, by Jurgen Rahe and Ray L. Newburn, Jr.