Even though Google has been improving its Google Earth platform by adding more and more features to help users explore the world from unique vantage points, today, the company delivered the “biggest update” to the platform since 2017. With this update, Google Earth has gained a new timelapse mode that lets users glide through time to see how a region or an area changed over the years.
The announcement comes via an official blog post. As per Rebecca Moore, the Director of Google Earth, the company took 24 million satellite images of the Earth from the past 37 years (from 1984 to 2020) to compile them into an interactive 4D experience. This is to showcase how the Earth has changed, for better or for worse, in the past four decades. It is a feature that aims to instill a need for change in the coming generations.
Moreover, Google has added over 800 Timelapse videos in 2D and 3D for users to download and use for free or sit back and enjoy the changing-time experience on YouTube.
