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Past Issues of The Planetary Report
Mysterious Mars
Contamination From Mars: No Threat, by Robert Zubrin; What Might Have Been: The Mars Polar Lander and Mars Climate Orbiter Losses, by Andre Bormanis; Mars Global Surveyor: Performing Daily, 687 Days a Year, by Jennifer Vaughn; Human Exploration of Space: Fact and Fantasy, by Charlene Anderson
Facing the Impact Hazard
Astronomy: Eyes Wide Shut, by David Jewitt; Shoemaker Grants: A Little Money, Lots of NEOs, by Dan Durda; Human Exploration of Near-Earth Asteroids, by Dan Durda; NEAR Shoemaker Goes to Work, by Charlene Anderson
Optical SETI - At Last!
The Planetary Society Presses Forward, by Louis Friedman; Flash! Optical SETI Joins the Search, by Paul Horowitz; Imaging Mars: The Hollywood Version, by Charlene Anderson
Europa: Tantalizing Possibilities
Mars Exploration: Faster, Better, Cheaper is Still the Way, by Louis Friedman; Planetfest '99, by Michael Carroll; Searching for Life (?) on Europa, by Charlene Anderson
Destination Mars
An Interview with Tim Ferris; Over One Million Served: SETI@home Passes the Million Mark, by Charlene M. Anderson; Assessing the Hazard: The Development of the Torino Scale, by Richard P. Binzel; Mars Polar Lander—Countdown to Touchdown, by Jennifer Vaughn; The Second Coming of NEAR, by Robert Farquhar, David Dunham, and Bobby Williams
Mars Through New Eyes
Exploring With Aerobots: A New Way to See Worlds, by James A. Cutts and Viktor V. Kerzhanovich; Red Rover, Red Rover, Send Future Astronauts Over! by Jennifer Vaughn