Map of Fallen Meteorites
This visualization maps the reported fall locations of meteorites using longitude and latitude coordinates. Without a geographic backdrop, the dense clustering of points reveals continent outlines, with notable concentrations across the USA, Europe, and India, and coastal-heavy landings in Africa. The data, sourced from a CSV file, is rendered as circles using Vega-Lite’s markCircle encoding, with latitude and longitude mapped through the vl.longitude and vl.latitude APIs. The visualization is built with d3, Vega-Lite, and the Vega-Lite API, which handle data loading via d3.csv and tooltip display of the fall year.
AI-generated descriptionThis is a visualization for Fallen Meteorites that shows a map of where each reported meteorite fell by longitude and latitude. Even though there isn't a map behind these points, we can see outlines of the continents. We can see that there is a large amount of landing spots in the USA, Europe, and India. In Africa, it looks like most landing sites were along the coast instead of being inland. This closely represents a world population map which might be because the more populated a place is, the more likely a fallen meteorite will be reported!