On April 22, one month and one day after the spring equinox, Earth Day is celebrated, established in the late 1960s to emphasize the need for the conservation of our planet’s natural resources. In view of the anniversary, Google has decided to add a new function to its Earth platform: it is called Timelapse (it can already be used here: https://g.co/Timelapse) and allows you to see the changes of the ecosystem of the Earth in the last 36 years, from 1984 to 2020. Thanks to 20 million satellite photos and the gigantic mapping that is now available to the American giant, it is possible to see in video-timelapse form how many places have changed of the planet due to climate change and at the hands of man: as in a sort of movie, something like a “time travel” from the past to the present.
The project was carried out by the Google “Earth” team together with NASA technicians already working on the “Landsat” program of the United States Geological Survey who also used the Copernicus satellites of the European Union.
“Our planet – explain the leaders of Google – has witnessed rapid environmental changes in the last half century more than it has seen at any other time in human history. Many have experienced these developments within their communities. For others. , the effects of climate change seem abstract and distant, such as the melting of the polar ice caps and the retreat of glaciers, but they affect everyone “.