Google Earth Adds Timelapse Videos of Earth Taken From Over 40 Years

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By Mashable | 26 July 2012 | 183

Google announced on Monday it is celebrating the 40-year anniversary of NASA’s Landsat satellites that have been continuously circling the Earth and collecting data about its surface by making its images available on Google Earth.

Images of the Earth taken by Landsat satellites, which have been orbiting the globe every 16 days since July 1972, are now available in the form of timelapse videos. Google said it has been working with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and Carnegie Mellon University to bring the image collection online. Read More