Google Earth is adding a mesmerizing timelapse feature, showing the changes of our planet over time in what Google says is its biggest update since 2017.
Google Earth is adding a mesmerizing timelapse feature, showing the changes of our planet over time in what Google says is its biggest update since 2017. Timelapse in Google Earth pulls together a total of 24 million satellite images of the planet taken over the past 37 years, unlocking an unprecedented perspective of the changes those decades have wrought. As you might expect, some of those changes are considerable. Towns flourish into cities, while industrial centers grow. At the same time, forests and rainforest have been shrinking in some areas, while climate change has had a significant impact on many areas of the arctic and antarctic, as well as closer to more populated parts of the globe. Unsurprisingly, trying to condense nearly four decades of satellite data – taken from different sources and with different equipment – was no straightforward task.
