Home Video: Now You Can Travel Back & Forth Through Time on Google Earth

Video: Now You Can Travel Back & Forth Through Time on Google Earth

Monday marks the 40th anniversary of the Landsat satellite program. It’s the longest-running continuous program capturing satellite images of Earth. Google is working with the U.S. Geological Survey and Carnegie Mellon University to make parts of the archive available to the public. Using Google Earth Engine, you can now travel back and forth in time between 1999 and 2011 and see how Earth has changed.

Read more about the partnership on the Google Lat Long blog.

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