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A Visual Guide to Venus by Eleanor Lutz

Friday, March 10, 2017 - 10:15

When space tourism(link is external) is in full swing, you’ll need to know how to get around foreign planets. One designer is already making maps to guide us.

Scientist and information designer Eleanor Lutz(link is external), a Ph.D. candidate in the University of Washington’s biology program, has previously mapped Mars(link is external), turned viruses into trading cards(link is external), and made an animated guide(link is external) to North American butterflies. Her latest infographic is a map of Venus(link is external), but it includes more than just a guide to the second planet’s topography. Almost all the features on Venus are named after women, mythological and real, and Lutz’s map explains where these perhaps unfamiliar names come from.

 

Read the full article on Mental_floss(link is external)

 

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