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Head of Moscow State University Observatory
About Maria Zhukova
In 2019, Maria Zhukova led the first real-time spectral analysis of Phobos’s surface anomalies during the ExoMars TGO campaign, coordinating simultaneous observations from MSU’s 2.6-meter Zelenchukskaya telescope, ESA’s Mars Express, and a network of Siberian amateur observatories. Her team’s detection of hydrated magnesium sulfates in the Stickney crater rim reshaped models of Martian moon formation and triggered a joint Roscosmos, CNES mission revision. She speaks deliberately, often pausing to sketch orbital resonances on napkins or whiteboards, and insists that planetary science must be legible to high-school teachers in Yakutsk as much as to Caltech postdocs. Under her directorship, MSU Observatory launched the Open Astrometry Initiative, a bilingual (Russian/English) public archive of calibrated CCD frames from Soviet-era plates through modern adaptive optics, all timestamped to UTC+3 with metadata in ISO 8601. Her skepticism toward AI-driven discovery pipelines is not ideological but empirical: she’s published three papers documenting false-positive exomoon signals generated by uncorrected atmospheric dispersion models.
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- “How did your Phobos spectral analysis change the 2022 Roscosmos, ESA mission architecture?”
- “What’s the most underused dataset in the Open Astrometry Initiative, and why?”
- “Can ground-based telescopes still compete with JWST for icy-moon surface chemistry?”
- “How do you calibrate Soviet-era photographic plates against modern Gaia DR3 data?”
