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Irishman wrote:Air produces meteors? Oh, you mean that meteors entering Mars' atmosphere actually glow and have tails.Chris Peterson wrote:Alnilam wrote:But it's air- substantial enough to produce meteors, ...
Meteors are what you get when a meteoroid ablates in the atmosphere, producing light- and that happens on Mars as well as the Earth.Irishman wrote:Air produces meteors? Oh, you mean that meteors entering Mars' atmosphere actually glow and have tails.Chris Peterson wrote:Alnilam wrote:But it's air- substantial enough to produce meteors, ...
Greek: μετέωρος metéōros "lofty; high (in the sky)" (from μετα- meta- "above" and ἐωρ eōr "to lift up").Chris Peterson wrote:
Meteors are what you get when a meteoroid ablates in the atmosphere, producing light- and that happens on Mars as well as the Earth.