428,000 pixels to mars

If the Earth were only 100 pixels wide, then the distance from the Earth to the Moon would be about 3000 pixels. Before Mars, at the time of its closest approach to Earth, there would be 428,000 pixels, or 55.76 million kilometers. You can visualize this distance on the website distancetomars.com , which was created by London-based designers David Palivoda and Jess Williams. In order not to manually scroll through several hundred screens, there is an arrow on the site, with which you can fly to Mars in about a minute - several times faster than light. The visualization is impressive even though designers are even less friendly with math than with physics - during the flight it is reported that the speed is 200,000 km / h, which is slightly (1607256 times) less than the true value.