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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
Planetary Protection: Safeguarding Islands of Life
Is It Dangerous to Return Samples from Mars to Earth? by Carl Sagan; Protecting Our Planet, Preserving Other Worlds, by Donald DeVincenzi; Where No One Has Gone Before...What is Planetary Protection, Anyway? by John Rummel and Michael Meyer; Rocks in Quarantine: Apollo's Lessons for Mars, by John Bagby; Lessons from Viking: The Search for Life on Mars, by Norman Horowitz and Arden Albee; Caution and Humility: Where There's Water... by Elliot Levinthal; Lessons From Evolution: Ruling Out Danger, by Thomas Jukes; Considering the Improbable: Life Underground on Mars, by C. P. McKay, M. Ivanov, and P. J. Boston; Swapping Rocks: Exchange of Surface Material Among the Planets, by H. Jay Melosh; Anticipating the Reaction: Public Concern About Sample Return Missions, by Margaret Race
Remembering Apollo
The Gift of Apollo, by Carl Sagan; While We Weren't Watching: Apollo's Scientific Exploration of the Moon, by Andrew Chaikin; Observing a Cataclysm: The Last Days of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, by John Spencer; The Comet is Coming: The Planetary Society Revs Up for Jupiter Watch, by Charlene Anderson
Venus—Uncovering Her Secrets
No Space for NASA, by Nicholas Wade; Orbital Maneuvers: Magellan Aerobrakes Into Venus' Atmosphere, by David Doody; Laurel Wilkening Joins Planetary Society's Board of Directors, by James Burke; Mining the Air: How Far Have We Progressed? by Kumar Ramohalli
Jupiter's Celestial Necklace
Bodies on the Brink, by Paul Weissman; Jupiter Watch: The Celestial Necklace Breaks, by Charlene Anderson; A Rover's Journey: Linking Two Worlds, by George Powell
Mars Observed—Then Oblivion
What Happened to Mars Observer? by Louis Friedman; Triumph and Failure: The Way of Planetary Exploration, by Louis Friedman; Return to the Wonder World: Mars Observer in Perspective, by Carl Sagan; The Space Station: In the Beginning, by Hans Mark
Monitoring the Milky Way
Project META: What Have We Found? by Paul Horowitz; Back to the Moon, On to an Asteroid: The Clementine Mission, by Stewart Nozette and Eugene Shoemaker; From Cycle to Cycle: Magellan's Mission Continues, by Charlene Anderson