Wednesday, 15 May 2013

Google takes you back in time

Las Vegas TimelapseTimelapseGoogle has been working with the U.S. Geological Society and NASA to produce some amazing time lapse images of our planet.

Collating images from over 40 years of Landsat satellite footage, the search engine has produced a several timelapse videos, that start in 1984 and finish 2012.

They map out several major changes to the planet, from the Shrinking of the Amazon forest to the growth of Las Vegas. The project was also partnered with Time Magazine, for their Timelapse project.

You can read more on the Google Blog, and see the timelapse here.

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