The New York Times has created an amazing interactive map together with timeline of NASA's Mars Rover. The Mars Curiosity Rover Tracker visualizes the rails of the Mars Rover on a satellite picture map of Mars.
You tin click on waypoints along the Rover's rails to thought photos captured past times the Rover on its twelvemonth together with a one-half journeying into the Gale Crater. The surface of Mars is an alien landscape, unknown to around of us, the map thence includes a timeline showing the place of interesting stops on its journey.
If you lot pick out a twenty-four hours from the timeline or click on the waypoints on the map you lot tin thought roughly amazing photographs from the surface of Mars. Many of the images convey been stitched together to practise roughly out-of-this-world panoramic shots of the Martian landscape or animations that aid 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 public on the total of liberty they grant the media, based on a release of criteria.
The Index is accompanied past times a mapped visualization of how countries rank. The map includes 2 views, a traditional 2nd map thought together with an interesting 3d thought which visualizes press liberty every bit a topographical map. The map likewise includes the selection to thought the Index results for previous years, together with so it is possible to thought how press liberty may convey grown or been restricted inwards countries around the public 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? precisely asks you lot to refer your favorite sport, part your place together with add together why you lot similar the chosen sport. At the minute H2O ice hockey is leading the means alongside the figure skaters inwards hot pursuit.
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 map allows you lot to thought the results of the survey past times location. You tin pick out private sports together with visualize around the public where those sports convey been chosen every bit readers' favorites.
