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  <p><a href="https://www.space.com/1155-shooting-star-mars.html" rel="noreferrer">First Shooting Star Seen from Mars
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  space.com  2005<br>
  <a href="https://i.sstatic.net/mHM5b.jpg" rel="noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/mHM5b.jpg" alt="enter image description here"></a><br>
  The background image shows the meteor near the top-left and the horizon at the bottom. A red arrow shows the direction of travel. The inset is a larger version of the meteor itself. The graph is a "light curve" that aided in tying the meteor to comet Wiseman–Skiff.
  (Image: © Nature/NASA/Spirit/F. Selsis et al.)</p>
</blockquote>

<p>This was made by Spirit's panoramic camera, so it probably would be visible to the naked (helmeted) eye.</p>

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Keith McClary
<p>If a person were standing on the surface of Mars, under ideal viewing conditions for seeing a meteor: no clouds, the sun has long set, would a meteor be visible to the naked eye considering how thin the Martian atmosphere is?</p>

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You can see a meteorite (a meteor that survives all the way to the surface) that landed on Mars here: https://space.stackexchange.com/a/24660/12102 Also check out  [What will shooting stars look like on Mars?](https://space.stackexchange.com/q/27073/12102) and also [How small must an asteroid be to burn entirely in the martian atmosphere?](https://space.stackexchange.com/q/34296/12102)
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Are meteors visible on Mars?
Bob516
# Are meteors visible on Mars?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2019-12-18)

If a person were standing on the surface of Mars, under ideal viewing conditions for seeing a meteor: no clouds, the sun has long set, would a meteor be visible to the naked eye considering how thin the Martian atmosphere is?

**Tags:** mars, meteor, naked-eye

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: You can see a meteorite (a meteor that survives all the way to the surface) that landed on Mars here: https://space.stackexchange.com/a/24660/12102 Also check out  [What will shooting stars look like on Mars?](https://space.stackexchange.com/q/27073/12102) and also [How small must an asteroid be to burn entirely in the martian atmosphere?](https://space.stackexchange.com/q/34296/12102)  

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_2 on 2019-12-18. Score: 8

> [First Shooting Star Seen from Mars](https://www.space.com/1155-shooting-star-mars.html)  
> space.com 2005  
> [![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/mHM5b.jpg)](https://i.sstatic.net/mHM5b.jpg)  
> The background image shows the meteor near the top-left and the horizon at the bottom. A red arrow shows the direction of travel. The inset is a larger version of the meteor itself. The graph is a "light curve" that aided in tying the meteor to comet Wiseman–Skiff.
> (Image: © Nature/NASA/Spirit/F. Selsis et al.)

This was made by Spirit's panoramic camera, so it probably would be visible to the naked (helmeted) eye.


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