Satellite Pictures Of Earth Through The Years

Eyes on the earth track earth s vital signs from space and fly along with nasa s earth observing satellites in an interactive 3d visualization.

Satellite pictures of earth through the years.

A new 20 year nasa timelapse taken from space shows in just a few minutes how life on earth shapes the planet year by year. Nasa gov brings you the latest images videos and news from america s space agency. And google provides users with easy access to 13 years of nasa landsat imagery of the earth s. Astronauts have used hand held cameras to photograph the earth for more than 40 years beginning with the mercury missions in the early 1960s.

Take a trip through the history of earth photography in our gallery from the first. Share your story with the world. Landsat 4 satellite image taken over maryland in 1982. The timelapse follows two decades of constant image collection from a.

The iss maintains an altitude between 220 286 miles 354 460 km above the earth and an orbital inclination of 51 6 providing an excellent stage for observing most populated areas of the world. New google service lets users zoom through years of time lapse satellite photos by chris wood. Over the past 70 years there has been a stunning assortment of images of our home planet taken from space. The google earth engine team worked with more than 5 4 million discrete images taken since 1984 and gave each one individual attention.

Make use of google earth s detailed globe by tilting the map to save a perfect 3d view or diving into street view for a 360 experience. If you re looking for old satellite images of an area dated before 1982 you can go to usgs earth explorer and comb through landsat 1 landsat 2 or landsat 3 datasets that aren t available in landviewer. In some cloud cover had to be scrubbed away.