
Editorial illustrator and data visualizer Bryan Christie created this fantastic graphic of Mars missions. Higher res at imgur. (via Laughing Squid)

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Awesome! This is a beautiful depiction of all the possible information regarding Mars travel from Earth.
A similar chart for Moon would be more crowded, but interesting nevertheless!
That's gorgeous. I love the mix of the old-timey and the modern.
The look of it kind of brings back the days when Mars was a vaguely-menacing unknown slowly crossing our skies, when we knew next to nothing about it and all we had to fill in the gap was our imagination. A boy, did we have some imagination.
It bears a curious resemblance to the moment of conception.
@Verre
Are you suggesting that sometimes a miscommunication between the male reproductive system and Lockheed Martin over measurements can cause failure to conceive?
Are you saying that Mars is pregnant? I wonder what the gestation period will be! We're gonna be daddies!
As cool as it would be to visit another planet in person, I think I'll hold off on buying my ticket until the success-to-failure ratio improves a bit more.
A) I love infographics and B) this coincides with my interests. I want this wall-sized.
Just this past weekend one of the Toronto papers reproduced this fantastic infographic from the National Geographic - Fifty Years of Space Exploration. Enjoy! We did.
http://books.nationalgeographic.com/map/map-day/index
Credit should be IEEE Spectrum magazine. This appeared in their June 2009 issue.
http://spectrum.ieee.org/static/why-mars-why-now