Greg Black

Research Scientist

Check the latest results from the Cassini mission at Saturn.

Curriculum Vitae

B.S. Physics, MIT.

Ph.D. Astronomy, Cornell.

Recent Teaching

ASTR 347: Science and Controversy in Astronomy.

ASTR 451: Introduction to Astrophysics

ASTR 121: Introduction to the Sky and the Solar System.

Research Interests

Planetary science: icy moons and rings of the outer Solar System; near Earth asteroids; radar interferometry techiques; rotation states.

Publications

Icy Satellites

• "Arecibo radar observations of Rhea, Dione, Tethys, and Enceladus", Icarus, 191, p. 702, 2007.

• "Cassini RADAR observations of Enceladus, Tethys, Dione, Rhea, Iapetus, Hyperion, and Phoebe", Icarus, 183, p. 479, 2006.

• "Radar Detection of Iapetus", Science, 304, p. 553, 2004.

• "Radar Evidence for Liquid Surfaces on Titan", Science, 302, p. 431, 2003.

• "Icy Galilean Satellites: 70 cm Radar Results from Arecibo", Icarus, 151, p. 160, 2001.

• "Icy Galilean Satellites: Modeling Radar Reflectivities as a Coherent Backscatter Effect", Icarus, 151, p. 167, 2001.

Saturn's Rings

• "Radar imaging of Saturn's rings", Icarus, 117, p. 32, 2005.

Near Earth Asteroids

Radio and Radar Astronomy; Very Long Baseline Interferometry

• (recent abstract)