Richard SoareRichard Soare is a physical geographer and planetary scientist who specializes in periglacial (cold-climate, non-glacial) landscapes. For over two decades Dr. Soare has studied the mid-latitudes of Mars, i.e. Utopia Planitia, the Argyre region and th Martian dichotomy, and explored the possibility of freeze-thaw cycled water having revised the near-surface geology of these areas from the present and relatively recent past through to their deep-history. His published work in major planetary-science journals such as Icarus and Earth and Planetary Science has integrated HiRISE/CTX imagery with crater-age estimates, digital elevation models and SHARAD/MARSIS data sets. Much of this Mars-centred work has been informed by multiple field seasons in the Canadian arctic (the Tuktoyaktuk Coastlands and Axel Heiberg Island) and sub-arctic (Shefferville, Quebec). Currently, Dr. Soare is lead editing a book on Ices in the solar system (2022). Two books Dynamic Mars: recent and current landscape evolution of the red planet (2018) and Mars Geological Enigmas: From the Late Noachian Epoch to the Present Day (2021) preceded the Ices book. A fourth book, Mars Climate Change, will succeed the Ices book in two years. Prior to the postponement of the Next Mars Orbiter, the pre-cursor of the Mars Ice Mapper Mission, Dr. Soare served on the Canadian Space Agency's pre-phase "A" planning committee. He was tasked with and focused on identifying mid-latitudinal regions of Mars where near-surface ground ice might be prevalent. Read More Read Less