As seen on the National Geographic News a bright meteor (fireball) streaks the sky over ruins near the histroic city of Damghan, Iran. The image is made during the peak of the 2011 Quadrantid meteor shower. The fireball has appeared in the constellation Corvus and planet Saturn (in Virgo) is brightest point on the left side. The foreground structure is remain of a water reservoir or a cistern made besides a large desert caravansary on the silk road, right outside the wall of an ancient city known as Qumis (or Hecatompylos as recorded by Greek historians). The ancient city is now buried under the desert here.