Google has expanded the Timelapse feature of the Google Earth Engine, and it now contains annual satellite images of the entire world from 1984 through 2016. It's so cool to see things like Olympic venues being built in cities like London, England, or the incredible expansion of Chinese towns into sprawling cities.
What's coolest about this feature, though, is that on top of the video highlights, you can actually explore the Google Earth Engine, pointing the camera at exactly what you want to see and panning and zooming to get a better look.
To achieve this, Google used over 5 million satellite images and combined them with CREATE Lab's Time Machine library in Carnegie Mellon University. This technology allowed the Timelapse to be fully interactive. How awesome is that! I've already lost too much time watching my hometown grow over the course of three decades!
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