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“What we built is the worlds first multi decade animated time lapse of the Earth.” – Rebecca Moore, engineering manager at Google Earth
“It’s trillions of pixels of satellite imagery data that has never been available to the public before and we’ve stitched that together into this seamless animation of the planet changing over time.” – Rebecca Moore
”A series of 8 satellites that have been orbiting the Earth since 1972 at an altitude of about 438 miles. From that altitude they make one revolution of Earth every 84 minutes so in 4 decades they’ve taken a whole lot of pictures.” – Jeffery Kluger, Time senior science director
This time lapse video is amazing. To actually be able to watch the Earth morph and change in fast forward from space feels god-like.
This video shows major geographical and ecological changes occurring in Dubai, Amazon, Shanghai, Tar Sands in Canada, Wyoming coal mining, Columbia glacier, Mendenhall glacier, Las Vegas, and more.
The Amazon images are the most shocking. Virgin old growth forest reduced to dust that will never grow trees again is traumatic to witness.
Perspectives are changed by these time lapse videos. We’re hoping NASA, Time, & Google will be able to put these videos into a popular format and share them with the entire world.
That amazon is hurting
Unreal