Earth_Sol63A_UFO-A067R1.jpg

Summary

Description Earth Sol63A UFO-A067R1.jpg	English: This is an image of what is now believed to be the first meteor photographed on Mars . The image was taken by Mars rover Spirit on March 7, 2004 (Sol 63), at 04:50:19 local time (LST), with an exposure time of 15 seconds. Analysis published in the June 2, 2005 issue of Nature indicates that this was likely a meteor from a Martian meteor shower whose parent body is comet 114P/Wiseman-Skiff and whose radiant is in the constellation Cepheus . Because of the long exposure time, another possibility originally considered was that this could have been the Viking 2 Orbiter rather than a meteor.
Date	2 June 2005 (original upload date)
Source	http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/press/spirit/20040311a/Earth_Sol63A_UFO-A067R1.jpg http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/press/spirit/20040311a.html
Author	NASA/JPL/Cornell

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