Articles about HABIT

World leading Mars scientists in Luleå

2017-05-29 This week, leading Mars scientists from all over the world gather in Luleå. They are all members of the HABIT science team led by Luleå University of Technology’s professors Javier Martín-Torres and M...

Luleå researchers appoints landing site on Mars

2017-04-07 Scientific experts have identified two possible locations on Mars for the landing site of the ExoMars2020 expedition, where the mission is to find life on the red planet. Luleå University of Technolog...

Successful insertion into Mars orbit

2016-10-20 Wednesday night, exciting attempts were made by the European Space Agency, ESA to make the first successful European landing of a spacecraft on Mars ever. The mission had another important task beside...

Life on Mars sought in India

2016-07-29 Three members of the research group in Atmospheric Science are now leaving for Ladakh, India, to test a prototype of HABIT, the instrument selected as part of the payload on board the ExoMars 2020 mis...

In the media: The hunt for habitable places in space

2016-04-29 Maria-Paz Zorzano and Javier Martín-Torres, both professors of atmospheric science, are interviewed in Vetandets värld about the HABIT instrument, the instrument that will eventually land on Mars.

Student experiment onboard rocket

2016-02-08 An instrument designed and built Space Engineering students Luleå University of Technology, SALACIA, has been selected to participate in the rocket program REXUS/BEXUS. The goal is to examine how salt...

Swedish Mars instrument selected by ESA

2015-12-02 HABIT is the name of the first Swedish instrument to be placed on the surface of Mars. It was developed by an international research team led by Professor Javier Martín-Torres and Professor María-Paz ...

Published:27 February 2016
Updated: 11 October 2019
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