New Out Of This Earth - Maps Of The Week
January 15, 2019
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The best interactive maps of the past times calendar week direct maintain been out of this world.
The New York Times created 2 planetary globes from NASA's latest imagery of Pluto in addition to Ceres. The NYT's Pluto Globe & Ceres Globe are uncomplicated only impressive maps, only my 2 favorite maps this calendar week were Discovering Liquid Water on Mars and Where on Mars?.
Where on Mars? is a superbly crafted storey map which explains the diverse criteria existence used to alternative the perfect landing site for the European Space Agency's Mars rover. ESA's ExoMars programme plans to dry reason a rover on the surface of Mars to search for signs of past times in addition to introduce life.
The Where on Mars storey map shows the 4 possible landing sites for the ExoMars 2018 Mission. The map includes a position out of dissimilar map views of the cerise planet. Using the frontwards in addition to dorsum buttons on the map you lot tin strength out progress through the dissimilar map layers to larn to a greater extent than almost how the in conclusion landing site volition live on chosen.
On Mon NASA announced that 'recurring gradient lineae' in addition to hydrated salts discovered on the sides of craters are proof of H2O catamenia on Mars. The Esri Story map, Discovering Liquid Water on Mars, provides a neat illustration of these recurring gradient lineae using NASA imagery in addition to maps of Mars.
The storey map uses imagery from the Horowitz, Hale, Garni in addition to Palikir craters to exhibit examples of these night streaks which are caused past times subsurface H2O flow. In item the timelapse images from the Palikir in addition to Horowitz craters create a neat chore at showing how the streaks appear, lengthen in addition to vanish amongst the passing of seasons on Mars.
Back on footing you lot tin strength out accept an amazing virtual hot air balloon ride over the Swiss Alps with Suisse Mania. This stunning 3d map takes you lot on a journeying over Switzerland in addition to allows you lot to explore this beautiful province from the air.
Use your left mouse push to motility some the map. The correct mouse push rotates your thought in addition to you lot tin strength out role your scroll bicycle to zoom inward in addition to out on the map. As you lot go some the map you lot tin strength out click on buildings in addition to other features on the map to heed to the history of the selected location. You tin strength out every bit good add together the selected locations to your ain scrapbook. There are 54 particular objects to collect inward all. Good hunting ....