Articles about Mars

Oxygen fluctuations on Mars a mystery for Scientists to solve

2019-11-15 New research results show that the amount of oxygen on Mars varies over time in a way that current models cannot explain. Why is a mystery yet to be solved.
– There are still photochemistry processes...

Slope streaks signs of more water on Mars

2017-09-11 A step closer to answering the question about the presence of liquid water – and perhaps life – on current Mars has been taken. An article published in Scientific Reports written by the Atmospheric Sc...

Fictitious Mars reviewed by researchers

2017-06-01 Lectures on Mars’ history, microbes on Mars and the constant search for life on Mars, closed the Mars Week at Luleå University of Technolgy. Also, there was a thrilling disclosure: Matt Damon couldn’t...

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...

Dr. Kai Goebel from NASA adjunct Professor at LTU

2017-03-14 Dr. Kai Goebel from the Intelligent Systems Division at NASA becomes adjunct professor in Operation and Maintenance Engineering at Luleå University of Technology. He will work as a supervisor of gradu...

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...

India first stop on the way to Mars

2016-04-18 A prototype of the instrument HABIT that will be sent to Mars in 2020, will be tested during a NASA expedition to a Martian like environment in northern India. – It is a very prestigious expedition. A...

Next trip to Mars

2016-03-21 NASA visited Luleå University and Dr. Kai Goebel lectured on everything from the moon landing to mice in weightlessness. "What does NASA do? An insider's view" was the title of the seminar that attrac...

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 ...

Lulea research is confirmed by NASA's discovery

2015-09-30 Professor Javier Martin-Torres led the group of scientists, that in spring 2015, for the first time found evidences for liquid water conditions on Mars. Now Nasa has moved one step further in the sear...

Martín-Torres about new NASA findings

2015-09-28 Professor Javier Martín-Torres is interviewed in several media about NASA's discovery of water on Mars.

Researchers hesitant to life on Mars

2015-04-13 A very important discovery has been made on the planet Mars. Brines that evaporates during the night proves that there is a water cycle on Mars. The spectacular findings are published in Nature Geosci...

World news about the planet Mars

2015-04-13 New crucial discoveries about the planet Mars, with the help of NASA's Curiosity Rover has been developed by Professor Javier Martín-Torres at Luleå University of Technology. Tomorrow, Tuesday 14 Apri...

Scientists find fixed nitrogen in Martian sediments

2015-03-24 Javier Martín-Torres, Professor of Atmospheric Science at Luleå University of Technology, is one of several researchers who has found fixed forms of nitrogen in Mars. The research findings are now bee...

Possible life on Mars in Science

2014-12-16 There is methane in the Martian atmosphere. This is stated in an article published this week in the Science magazine. Javier Martín-Torres, professor of atmospheric science at Luleå University of Tech...

Is there life on Mars? Scientists from NASA visit LTU

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Published:27 February 2016
Updated: 11 October 2019
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