Google’s satellite timelapses show the inconvenient truth about our planet

Timelapse is a global, zoomable video that lets you see how the Earth has changed over the past 32 years. It is made from 33 cloud-free annual mosaics, one for each year from 1984 to 2016, which are made interactively explorable by Carnegie Mellon University CREATE Lab’s Time Machine library, a
technology for creating and viewing zoomable and pannable timelapses over space and time.

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