Four-Decade Timelapses: Google Earth’s Biggest Update in Years
The timelapse feature introduced by Google Earth has given glimpses of the last 40 years of the planet. Thanks to the 24 million pictures taken and accumulated by satellites over the past four decades. Billions of people have turned to explore the Earth from endless and various vantage points over the past fifteen years. Google introduced its most significant update, i.e., timelapse feature, to Google Earth. This most extensive and most popular virtual globe-trotting feature has been in use since 2017. Google Earth has been effectively presenting the updated glimpses of any location across the globe for years. With the timelapse feature, the search engine giant has expanded this concept to the next level and offered another ability. Now, the timelapse feature displays the different locations that have changed and look like presently over time. Google Earth was released in 2001, and since then, it has traveled two long decades. Over the years, users have used it as the source to v...