the surface of a planet; a base or other installation on a planet
The 1979 quot. could be adverbial.
A sixty-foot rectangular building of steel, one story high, resting upside down with the planet[-]side to the sky.]
Completing the members of the expedition was another trio chosen to act as general crew, medical and commissary men while in flight, and as a trained explorer-fighter unit while on planetside.
The rules for visiting planetside are being observed, arenβt they?
The referee, as on planetside, is able to move as he sees fit in order to best watch the action.
When heβd first been assigned to planetside, Private Akman had been glad to escape the Lynx.
antedating 1959
Donald Wollheim
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