I was struck by the visual similarity of these two round graphics from the Science section of today's Washington Post. The first shows the circuitous path taken by the Mercury Messenger spacecraft, which is scheduled to fly by the innermost planet in about 2 hours from the time I'm writing this:


The second image shows the changing ice situation in Antarctica on a cool combination of ice-flow velocity map and ice loss/gain bar graph, wrapped around the edge:

Labels: art, global warming, planetary geology