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Past Issues of The Planetary Report
The Next Step?
Going to Mars by Way of the Moon: The Role of a Lunar Base in Mars Exploration, by Michael Duke; A Talk With John Aaron, by Louis Friedman
Earth or Mars?
Detecting and Studying Extrasolar Planets, by John Appleby and Arthur Vaughn; Alien Life—Forms and Functions in Fluids, by James Burke; Is It Earth...or Is It Mars? by Farouk El-Baz
Life in the Universe
Life in the Universe, by Donald DeVincenzi; Life's Origin: The Cosmic, Planetary and Biological Processes, by T. Scattergood, D. Des Marais, and L. Jahnke; Chemistry Between the Stars, by William Irvine; The Origin of Life, by James Ferris; Mars, Then and Now by Norman Horowitz; Biology and the Exploration of Mars, by Harold Klein; Time Travel and Chemical Evolution: A Look at the Outer Solar System, by Tobias Owen; Finding and Studying Other Planetary Systems, by David Black; The Windows of SETI—Frequency and Time Travel in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, by Bernard Oliver; Terraforming: Making an Earth of Mars, by Christopher McKay
Dust Jets of Halley's Comet
Half an Hour in the Comet's Coma, by Roald Sagdeev and Leonid Ksanfomaliti
Venus
Auroras at Venus? by Harry Taylor, Jr.; Lightning on Venus—An Alternative View, by William Borucki; How the Planetary Sciences Struggle Toward the Truth, by James Burke; Eighteen Months of META: A Status Report on The Planetary Society's SETI Project, by Paul Horowitz; A Space Station Worth the Cost: The Planetary Society Proposal, by Carl Sagan, Bruce Murray, and Louis Friedman
Exploring Mars
Radiation Risk and Planetary Exploration—The RTG Controversy, by David Salisbury; Exploring Mars by Balloon, by Jacques Blamont