Ronald Greeley
| Ronald Greeley | |
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| Born | August 25, 1939 Columbus, Ohio |
| Died | October 27, 2011 (aged 72) Tempe, Arizona |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Fields |
Geology Planetary Sciences |
| Institutions |
Standard Oil Company of California NASA Ames Research Center Arizona State University |
| Alma mater |
Mississippi State University University of Missouri at Rolla |
Ronald Greeley (August 25, 1939 – October 27, 2011) was a Regents’ Professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration (SESE) at Arizona State University (ASU), the Director of the NASA-ASU Regional Planetary Image Facility (RPIF), and Principal Investigator of the Planetary Aeolian Laboratory at NASA-Ames Research Center. He was involved with lunar and planetary studies since 1967 and most recently focused his research on understanding planetary surface processes and geologic histories.
Greeley earned his B.S. degree in Geology in 1962 and his M.S. degree in Geology in 1963 from Mississippi State University and earned his Ph.D. in Geology from the University of Missouri at Rolla in 1966.
After receiving his Ph.D. in Geology in 1966, Greeley worked for Standard Oil Company of California. Through his military service, he was assigned to NASA’s Ames Research Center in 1967 where he worked in a civilian capacity in preparation for the Apollo missions to the Moon. He remained at NASA to conduct research in planetary geology. With the results of the planetary missions in the early 1970s, attention shifted to Mars and research on volcanism and aeolian processes through the analysis of Mariner 6, 7, and 9 data. He became a science team member on the Mars Viking mission from 1976 through 1980.
In 1977, Greeley joined the faculty at Arizona State University with a joint professorship in Geology and the Center for Meteorite Studies. His latest research focused on the wind processes on Earth, Mars, Venus, and Titan, field studies of basaltic volcanism, and photogeological mapping of the planets and satellites including Europa. He was also a science team member on the Mars Exploration Rover program and the European Space Agency’s Mars Express mission.
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