Larry Soderblom is a retired planetary scientist who was born July 17, 1944. During his career, he has worked on many planetary exploration missions including: Mariners 6, 7 and 9, Viking, Voyager, Magellan, Galileo, Mars Global Surveyor, Mars Pathfinder, New Millennium Deep Space 1, Cassini-Huygens, and the Mars Exploration Rover Missions.