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If you happen to have a good telescope of at least 200x magnification, you can get a closer view of some of the red planet’s most extraordinary features. Some of those being the southern polar ...
Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn will all be visible without any optical assistance, according to NASA. To catch Neptune and Uranus in the mix, you'll need the help of a telescope.
On the other hand, an observer on Mars would see the Moon rotate, with the same period as its orbital period, and would see far side features that can never be seen from Earth. Since Earth is an inferior planet, observers on Mars can occasionally view transits of Earth across the Sun. The next one will take place in 2084.
Five planets can be recognized as planets from Earth with the naked eye: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. Under typical dark sky conditions Uranus (magnitude +5.8) can be seen as well with averted vision, as can the asteroid Vesta at its brighter oppositions.
You can see them all in the first few hours after sunset. Find a safe and comfortable spot with a clear, wide view of the sky, far from city lights. The top of a hill might be a good option.
It is possible to see them at these times, since their orbits are not exactly in the plane of Earth's orbit, so they usually appear to pass slightly above or below the Sun in the sky. Seeing them from the Earth's surface is difficult, because of sunlight scattered in Earth's atmosphere, but observers in space can see them easily if direct ...
Catch Jupiter and Mars close together while you can These cosmic pairings don't happen very often, so catch a glimpse while you can. Since the year 2000, Jupiter and Mars have been in conjunction ...
A diagram in Johannes Kamateros' 12th century Compendium of Astrology shows the Sun represented by the circle with a ray, Jupiter by the letter zeta (the initial of Zeus, Jupiter's counterpart in Greek mythology), Mars by a shield crossed by a spear, and the remaining classical planets by symbols resembling the modern ones, without the cross ...