Satellite Pictures Of Earth Through The Years

Astronauts have used hand held cameras to photograph the earth for more than 40 years beginning with the mercury missions in the early 1960s.

Satellite pictures of earth through the years.

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. 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. And google provides users with easy access to 13 years of nasa landsat imagery of the earth s. Share your story with the world.

The google earth engine team worked with more than 5 4 million discrete images taken since 1984 and gave each one individual attention. Take a trip through the history of earth photography in our gallery from the first. Get the latest updates on nasa missions watch nasa tv live and learn about our quest to reveal the unknown and benefit all humankind. 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.

In some cloud cover had to be scrubbed away. 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. Earth engine combines a multi petabyte catalog of satellite imagery and geospatial datasets with planetary scale analysisgoogle capabilities and makes it available for scientists researchers and developers to detect changes map trends and quantify differences on the earth s surface. Travel through earth s recent climate history and see how increasing carbon dioxide global temperature and sea ice have changed over time.

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.