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We investigate the plausibility of detecting meteors from the surface of Mars. We estimate the flux of high-speed photographic meteoroids at the orbit of Mars to be ∼50% that at Earth. Because the atmospheric densities of the Earth and Mars are comparable at a height of 120 km, close to where meteor ablation occurs on Earth, we also expect martian meteors to ablate at heights similar to those on Earth...