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Mars has a lot of dust in the atmopshere, which makes Martian astronomy more difficult. The Spirit rover did manage to capture an image of a comet though. There's some more detail on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomy_on_Mars#Comets_and_m...

If you're interested in the concept of "alien astronomy" from other planets, I've used these "planetarium" style tools to play around with what it'd look like:

Light: http://stellarium.org/ Medium: https://celestia.space/ Heavy: http://spaceengine.org/




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