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In 2013,Watch An Enticing Invitation Online Google launched Timelapse -- a Google Earth project that shows us how the Earth has changed in the last thirty years or so.
Now, Google has updated Timelapse with the four past years of imagery -- it now spans the period from 1984 to 2016 -- and "petabytes" of new data, which includes new, sharper images.
SEE ALSO: Google's Featured Photos come to the Mac as a screensaverThe imagery gives you quite an amazing view into various processes that change the shape of our planet -- deforestation, glacial motion, urbanization, war. Google offers a curated selection of interesting locations and events, such as the reconstruction of the Oakland Bay Bridge in San Francisco or the movement of the Hourihan Glacier in Antarctica.
Original image has been replaced. Credit: Mashable You can, however, point the map to any location in the world and see how it changed over time (though the imagery might not be of the same quality everywhere).
See a YouTube playlist with all of Google's curated Timelapse examples, below.
Google has shared an interesting insight on how Timelapse was created on its blog -- it took three quadrillion pixels and more than 5,000,000 satellite images to do it. Check out the details here.
Google Earth Timelapse is available at https://earthengine.google.com/timelapse/.
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