by Chris Peterson » Sat Nov 21, 2020 5:08 pm
De58te wrote: ↑Sat Nov 21, 2020 3:54 pm
Nice photo. It got me to thinking. What would Earth look like in the Martian sky? Has NASA turned their cameras to take a photo? Earth being some 40% bigger than Mars, it would presumably be bigger than this. But like Venus to Earth, Earth would be an inferior planet so would only be an evening or morning star in Mars' sky. Also does it also get meteor showers? Since Mars is in a different orbit, the meteor showers would also be unrelated to Earth's showers, but does Mars also get some shooting stars?
Yes, the Earth-Moon system has been imaged from Mars. With the cameras available, they're still only unresolved points, however.
Mars gets meteor showers the same as Earth does. But yes, they are from different debris streams (although the Halley debris stream also intersects Mars's orbit). At least one meteor has been imaged from the Martian surface, and is probably not a sporadic, but is associated with a comet, and is therefore seen as a shower member.
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Nice photo. It got me to thinking. What would Earth look like in the Martian sky? Has NASA turned their cameras to take a photo? Earth being some 40% bigger than Mars, it would presumably be bigger than this. But like Venus to Earth, Earth would be an inferior planet so would only be an evening or morning star in Mars' sky. Also does it also get meteor showers? Since Mars is in a different orbit, the meteor showers would also be unrelated to Earth's showers, but does Mars also get some shooting stars?
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Yes, the Earth-Moon system has been imaged from Mars. With the cameras available, they're still only unresolved points, however.
Mars gets meteor showers the same as Earth does. But yes, they are from different debris streams (although the Halley debris stream also intersects Mars's orbit). At least one meteor has been imaged from the Martian surface, and is probably not a sporadic, but is associated with a comet, and is therefore seen as a shower member.