In 1675 John Ogilby published Britannia, a serial of strip maps of roads inwards England in addition to Wales. In 2019 the New York Times also published a strip map. Only this strip map shows the journeying of a robot on Mars.
On Midweek NASA announced that the Mars Opportunity rover was no longer working. In June Opportunity went into hibernation during a dust tempest on Mars. It was hoped that afterwards the atmosphere cleared Opportunity would reboot in addition to give-up the ghost along working. However afterwards months of waiting yesterday NASA announced that the Opportunity mission was over.
The NYT's NASA’s Opportunity Rover Dies on Mars includes a fantastic strip map which allows yous to follow the journeying of the Mars rover from its landing inwards Eagle Crater inwards 2014 to its lastly resting house inwards Perseverance Valley. As yous scroll downward on the NYT visualization yous follow Opportunity's path using fantastic satellite imagery of the crimson planet. You tin explore the 28 miles that Opportunity traveled inwards a few seconds. Opportunity took 5,111 Martian days to locomote that distance. It is definitely worth taking a few minutes yourself to explore the wonderful aerial imagery inwards the NYT's strip map of Opportunity's exploration of Mars.
Some other examples of interactive strip maps include Propublica's A Rogue State Along Two Rivers explores the rising of ISIS past times next the paths of the Tigris in addition to Euphrates Rivers.
