MOSCOW, November 30. Academician Mikhail Marov, who was at the forefront of the Soviet program for the study of the Moon and planets of the solar system, has died, the scientific director of the Institute of Space Research said on Thursday (IKI) RAS Lev Zeleny.
“Mikhail Yakovlevich died today at six in the morning,” said Zeleny. He noted that Marov had been ill recently, but “had time to say goodbye,” celebrated his anniversary, and despite feeling unwell, “he gave excellent one-and-a-half-hour reports.”
Mikhail Marov was born on July 28, 1933 in Moscow. In 1958, he graduated from the Mechanical Faculty of the Moscow Higher Technical School (MVTU, now Bauman MSTU). After college, he worked at OKB-1 (now Rocket and Space Corporation Energia), where he was involved in the development of spacecraft with nuclear power plants.
As stated on the RAS website, for 20 years Marov together with cosmonautics theorist Mstislav Keldysh was engaged in “the development and implementation of a long-term Soviet program of scientific and applied space research, the study of near-Earth space, the Moon and the planets of the solar system.”
Then it was possible to obtain direct measurements of atmospheric parameters on Venus and Mars, in particular to find out about the unusual properties of the atmosphere of Venus (temperature on the surface is almost 500 degrees, pressure is 100 times higher than on Earth).
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