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Google has released a major update to its Timelapse image project, offering the most comprehensive picture yet of our changing planet.

Google first released its Timelapse visualisation of Earth in 2013, enabling people to explore changes to the Earth's surface like never before.

Now the search giant has added four additional years of imagery and petabytes of new data, offering an interactive timelapse experience spanning 32 years - from 1984 to 2016.

Meandering river in Nyingchi, Tibet, China

For the first time it is possible to see new glacial movements in Antarctica, urban growth, forest gain and loss and infrastructure development.

San Francisco - Oakland Bay Bridge reconstruction

Shirase Glacier, Antarctica

The timelapses are created by combining more than 5,000,000 satellite images - roughly 4 petabytes of data - to create 33 images of the entire planet, one for each year.

For this latest update, Google has also included historical images from the Landsat Global Archive Consolidation Program, and fresh satellite images from Landsat 8 and Sentinel-2.

These images were encoded into just over 25,000,000 overlapping multi-resolution video tiles.

Hourihan Glacier, Antarctica

Using the same techniques employed to improve Google Maps and Google Earth, the tiles were enhanced with truer colours and fewer distracting artifacts.

Alberta Tar Sands, Canada

O'Hare Airport, Chicago, Illinois

They were then made interactively explorable by Carnegie Mellon CREATE Lab's Time Machine library - a technology for creating and viewing zoomable and pannable timelapses.

You can view the entire range of Timelapse images on the Earth Engine website .