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Covers planetary exploration and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, with articles written by the people actually doing the research.

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Covers planetary exploration and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, with articles written by the people actually doing the research.



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"The Planetary Report" is the bimonthly flagship magazine of the Planetary Society, which is the largest nonprofit, non-governmental space advocacy group on Earth. The magazine features articles and color photographs about planetary missions, past, present, and future. "The Planetary Report" is an exclusive benefit for Planetary Society members, so I assume that what is really being sold here is a membership to the Planetary Society ($30/year), along with its bimonthly magazine. The magazine itself runs around twenty or thirty pages per issue with lots of gorgeous color photographs. One of my favorite issues from 2003 was the September/October retrospective of the "Glorious Galileo" mission. The Planetary Society asked the scientists who were involved in the Galileo mission to choose "Galileo's Greatest Hits," and the resulting article and photographs (not always in the visible light spectrum) are quite illuminating. My own favorite is the picture and article about the ice rafts on Europa. "We Make It Happen!" is a regular feature of the magazine. Planetary Society members are working on several space-related projects, including an attempt to fly the world's first solar sail. They plan to use a converted Russian submarine-launched ballistic missile to launch Cosmos 1, the solar sail payload. You may have seen a model of the Planetary Society's solar sail blade at the Centennial of Flight Exhibition at Rockefeller Center. The most likely launch date for Cosmos 1, is listed on the Planetary Society's website as "sometime in 2004." If you are looking for a way to actively support our long and winding path to outer space, join The Planetary Society. There's still time to become a supporter of our Cosmos 1 Solar Sail Mission! Comment | | (Report this)

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