A Strip Map Of Mars

In 1675 John Ogilby published Britannia, a serial of strip maps of roads inward England together with 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 afterward the atmosphere cleared Opportunity would reboot together with instruct out on working. However afterward 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 inward Eagle Crater inward 2014 to its in conclusion resting house inward Perseverance Valley. As yous scroll downwardly on the NYT visualization yous follow Opportunity's path using fantastic satellite imagery of the carmine planet. You tin explore the 28 miles that Opportunity traveled inward a few seconds. Opportunity took 5,111 Martian days to move that distance. It is definitely worth taking a few minutes yourself to explore the wonderful aerial imagery inward 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 yesteryear next the paths of the Tigris together with Euphrates Rivers.