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Link to a working version of the project: https://earthengine.google.com/timelapse/

The submitted article is a bit random, it's from 2013 and primarily links to a version of the project that doesn't work anymore (as far as I can tell). The Google+ links also really make you feel the passage of time.

Thanks! Didn;t know. I can't edit, but please someone who can please update the link with the link from pierrec

Thank you for linking to this – before noticing the date, I was initially disappointed to see the gifs were merely canonical examples and assumed the project was new/minor or abandoned.

As caretakers of the most comprehensive world database, Google is in a unique position to enrich the global commons. Projects like these are a universal humanitarian gift. It's unfortunate that such benevolent endeavours exist in the shadow of the irresponsible and widespread degradation of search result quality (with unknown second-order effects on public consciousness) and the panoptical Adsense surveillance super vortex.

It feels like everyone should be required to watch these events as part of being a global citizen.

(2013)

Looks like mold

A picture of Earth through time