At Popular Science, Sarah Fecht uses some awesomely old-school dataviz techniques.
I love it. Frankly, I could do with more scientific illustrations drawn by hand with crayon or colored pencil. It a) is really charming and b) has no less explanatory force than illustrations done with rendering software. In this case, Hecht is illustrating why the NASA spacecraft Dawn is taking such a long time to emerge from the far, dark side of Ceres. It’s because Dawn traveled out to Ceres at such high speed that — when time came to move into orbit around the dwarf planet — Dawn was forced into an elliptical orbit, with the peak far out into far side of Ceres.
I think Fecht nailed it.