Cementerio de la Almudena, Madrid, Spain: About 5 million people are buried in Madrid’s Cementerio de la Almudena cemetery. In aerial photographs, the site looks like a maze of intricate marble tombstones arranged in concentric circles. Image: Songquan Deng. Yan’an elevated road intersection, Shanghai, China: The Yan’an Overhead Road Interchange is one of the most impressive intersections in China. The paths intertwine, forming a knot in the center. This highway appeared briefly in the movie Skyfall 2012 by James Bond. Image: Dnevozhai. Taj Mahal, Agra, India: The Taj Mahal is one of the world famous landmarks of India. The aerial photograph offers a perspective that shows the near-perfect symmetry of the monument, from the domes and spiers to the majestic gates. Image: Uladzik Kryhin. Galesnjak, Croatia: Its impressive shape has earned Galesnjak the nickname “Lover’s Island”. With ancient grave mounds and olive trees, the small island, measuring only 50 square meters, was famous about a decade ago when its unique shape was pointed out by Google Earth. Image: Shutterstock. Road to Tianmen Mountain, China: The route through Tianmen Mountain is like a piece of silk squeezed between the green mountains. The zigzag road has a total of 99 bends 11 km long, once published in Dangerous Road Known as the most dangerous road in the world. Image: WeStudio. Lotus Temple, New Delhi, India: The Lotus Temple in New Delhi looks impressive from any angle. Built in the 1980s, the sacred Baháʼí building is designed to look like a lotus flower. Around the temple are 9 lakes with the number 9 being the “perfect” number in Baháʼí beliefs. Image: Vibgyor Studios . Palmanova, Italy: The star-shaped city of Palmanova was built in the 16th century. This design embodies the Renaissance ideal of what a perfect city should be: clean geometry and surrounded by multiple walls. The city was fortified, able to prevent attacks from the Ottomans. Napoleon finally conquered Palmanova in the late 1700s. Photo: Maykova Galina. Pentagon, Virginia, USA: The Pentagon was built in the classical style and spread over an area of ​​​​more than 11 hectares. Initially, in the 1940s, the building was planned to be located on a land with 5 sides facing the road, then the work was built elsewhere but the architects kept the pentagonal design. . Image: gokturk_06. Palm Jumeirah, Dubai, UAE: No list of stunning aerial views would be complete without Dubai’s palm tree archipelago. This man-made archipelago is home to super luxury hotels and luxury villas. The palm tree design gives the building a spectacular look when viewed from above. Image: Andrew Ring.

Google Earth desktop and mobile time lapse is now available worldwide. PHOTO: GOOGLE. Google Earth users can see the dreadful impact climate change has had over the past four decades. Google’s latest feature, Timelapse, is an eye-opening engineering marvel that provides visual evidence of how Earth has changed due to climate change and human behavior. This tool takes a static image of the platform and transforms it into a dynamic 4D experience, allowing users to click through the timeline highlighting melted ice caps, receding glaciers, massive urban growth, and the impact of forest fires on agriculture. Google says it took two million processing hours on thousands of machines in Google Cloud to compile 24 million satellite photos, 800 videos captured and recorded between 1984 and 2020 on Timelapse. The company has worked with NASA, the US Geological Survey’s Landsat program, the European Union’s Copernicus program and Sentinel satellites, and the Carnegie Mellon University CREATE Laboratory, to help develop the technology. Satellite images taken of Dubai in 2002 and 2020. Source: GOOGLE. To explore Timelapse in Google Earth, a user can type any location into the search bar to see the location in motion, whether it’s a landmark or a neighborhood where they grew up. Google says it has removed elements such as clouds and shadows from images, and has calculated a single pixel for every location on Earth annually since 1984; put them together into one Timelapse video. Google Earth’s Timelapse tool shows the changing coastlines, the dramatic expansion of the cityscape and agricultural land, as well as the simultaneous degradation of glaciers, forests, and rivers. Through Timelapse one can see the coast of Cape Cod gradually shifting south, the development of agriculture in the middle of the desert in Al Jowf, Saudi Arabia and the development of Songdo beach, a beach. man-made in Busan, Korea. “Visual evidence can get to the core of a debate in a way that words cannot convey complex issues to people,” said Rebecca Moore, director of Google Earth. Google has also made guided tours through its Voyager storytelling platform, around some of the broader changes seen in the image. Satellite images show the Aral Sea in Kazakhstan in 1988 and 2006. Source: GOOGLE. Google said it hopes governments, researchers, journalists, teachers, and advocates will analyze their images, identity trends, and share their findings. “We invite everyone to use Timelapse and share it with others,” Ms. Moore said: “We invite everyone to use Timelapse and share it with others. Timelapse in Google Earth is a miniature to gauge the health and well-being of our single home and a tool that can educate and inspire action “. Climate change is causing frequent and more severe floods, droughts, storms and heat waves as global average temperatures rise to new record levels. Scientists have warned that an increase in global greenhouse gas emissions could lead to extreme weather conditions and higher risks from natural disasters. While the new tool can help raise awareness about our current climate crisis, a bigger challenge is translating that perception into action. Dr Jennifer Marlon, an environmental science researcher at the Yale Program on Climate Change Communications, said: “There is a large number of people who still believe that human activity cannot change the entire planet. . Those people probably won’t surf on Google Earth. But maybe their kids will watch at school and take them home telling their parents, “Mom and dad, look at this.” Google Earth’s time lapse is now available worldwide.