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July 24, 2012 12:25 am GMT

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




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.

"With them you can travel through time, from 1999-2011, to see the transformation of our planet -- whether its deforestation in the Amazon, urban grow…
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