Friday, November 19, 2021
The Maps Of The Week
The New York Times has created an amazing interactive map as well as timeline of NASA's Mars Rover. The Mars Curiosity Rover Tracker visualizes the runway of the Mars Rover on a satellite picture map of Mars.
You tin click on waypoints along the Rover's runway to persuasion photos captured past times the Rover on its twelvemonth as well as a one-half journeying into the Gale Crater. The surface of Mars is an alien landscape, unknown to nearly of us, the map hence includes a timeline showing the place of interesting stops on its journey.
If you lot choose a twenty-four hr current from the timeline or click on the waypoints on the map you lot tin persuasion some amazing photographs from the surface of Mars. Many of the images convey been stitched together to practise some out-of-this-world panoramic shots of the Martian landscape or animations that assistance illustrate how the Rover navigates the Martian surface.
Back on Earth, this calendar week Reporters Without Borders released the 2014 World Press Freedom Index. The Index ranks countries around the populace on the total of liberty they grant the media, based on a divulge of criteria.
The Index is accompanied past times a mapped visualization of how countries rank. The map includes 2 views, a traditional 2nd map persuasion as well as an interesting 3d persuasion which visualizes press liberty every bit a topographical map. The map every bit good includes the pick to persuasion the Index results for previous years, as well as so it is possible to persuasion how press liberty may convey grown or been restricted inwards countries around the populace over time.
This calendar week nosotros convey to characteristic a Winter Olympics related map. Luckily The Washington Post is conducting a survey into their readers' favorite wintertime sports.
What is Your Favorite Winter Sport? merely asks you lot to get upwards your favorite sport, percentage your place as well as add together why you lot similar the chosen sport. At the minute H2O ice hockey is leading the agency amongst the figure skaters inwards hot pursuit.
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 map allows you lot to persuasion the results of the survey past times location. You tin choose private sports as well as visualize around the populace where those sports convey been chosen every bit readers' favorites.
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