New The Maps Of The Week


The New York Times has created an amazing interactive map in addition to timeline of NASA's Mars Rover. The Mars Curiosity Rover Tracker visualizes the rails of the Mars Rover on a satellite icon map of Mars.

You tin flame click on waypoints along the Rover's rails to persuasion photos captured past times the Rover on its twelvemonth in addition to a one-half journeying into the Gale Crater. The surface of Mars is an alien landscape, unknown to nearly of us, the map thus includes a timeline showing the place of interesting stops on its journey.

If y'all take away a twenty-four hours from the timeline or click on the waypoints on the map y'all tin flame persuasion some amazing photographs from the surface of Mars. Many of the images convey been stitched together to practice some 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 precisely about the public on the sum of liberty they grant the media, based on a publish of criteria.

The Index is accompanied past times a mapped visualization of how countries rank. The map includes 2 views, a traditional 2d map persuasion in addition to 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, in addition to then it is possible to persuasion how press liberty may convey grown or been restricted inwards countries precisely about 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 y'all to get upward your favorite sport, portion your place in addition to add together why y'all similar the chosen sport. At the 2nd H2O ice hockey is leading the means amongst the figure skaters inwards hot pursuit.

H5N1 map allows y'all to persuasion the results of the survey past times location. You tin flame take away private sports in addition to visualize precisely about the public where those sports convey been chosen every bit readers' favorites.
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