According to relevant information reported in Google Earth Google launched time tourism services. From 1984 to now, the Earth has undergone many changes, and Google has provided users with a spectacular picture of the Earth's vicissitudes in a bird's-eye view.
Google's launch of the time tourism service, with the United States Geological Survey, NASA and Time magazine have cooperated. Google Earth provides high-definition images of Earth satellites, in which we see all the changes in the Earth since 1984. If the user wants to see a change in the location, after choosing the location, watch the time between 1984 and 2012.
Google said in its blog post: "Today we have successfully completed the task of time travel, so you can go back to the past." View the dramatic changes in the Earth's surface from a historical perspective. ”
Google said it had processed more than 2 million images, over 909TB of data, and managed to find images that were not covered by clouds. The images are then spliced together to create a magnificent picture of the time. Each image contains nearly 2 trillion pixel points, equivalent to 900,000 resolution of the picture.
Google has now released some startling time pictures for publicity. From these GIF images we can see that Dubai from a desert into a city and began to build an artificial island, the Amazon forest has been transformed by man-made deforestation, and the process of Umir Lake drying up.
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