What would the Earth look like from Mars?

Question

If you were to stand on Mars' surface and look towards the Earth, what would the Earth look like? Would it be blue or green? Or just like a close star?

Answer 1

Like a star.

Answer 2

It would look sort of like what Venus looks like from Earth. Since Earth is inside Mars's orbit, it would always appear on the horizon, at either dawn or dusk, like Venus. However, Earth would appear blue colored, as opposed to Venus's yellow color. I don't think Earth would be quite as bright as Venus, however, since Venus has a very high albedo.

Answer 3

what we see here, when we look at Venus is the reflection from those white cloud tops of Venus. what you would see from mars when you look at earth , would be blue / white, and twice as big as mars. But earth would be a morning / evening star, and there would be phases, like the moon and Venus.

Answer 4

It would look like a bright star. Much like Venus appears from Earth. That bright star in the west just after sundown this month is Venus.

Answer 5

The same as Venus does from the Earth. Variable in brightness, showing phases.

Answer 6

when it is between the sun and mars, it would be black... when it is not, our atmosphere would reflect most of the light, so the earth would look like a star... or something relative to one...

Answer 7

It would probably look like mars does from here.

Answer 8

it would be blue, and be around the same size as mars is to us

Answer 9

It would be a bluish bright object but with the unaided eye you would be unable to see a disc.

Answer 10

It would look like a star. A telescope would reveal more detail. here is a link to a picture if your interested. http://www.cs.bc.edu/~gips/mars_files/image002.jpg