Using Google's "time lapse" project, which through satellite imagery details how earth's physical appearance has changed since 1984, a closer look at Israel is presented.

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The project provides an amazing glimpse of the different ways in which our planet is changing —through processes such as deforestation, glacial movement, urbanization, and wars. The project site can choose from a number of points of interest around the world, including Antarctica where one can watch fluctuations in ice, Las Vegas, where urbanization is well documented and Israel, where changes in the Dead Sea are most apparent.

Satellite view of Israel

Time lapse Israel

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Aside from the target sites, any other point on the map may be chosen independently. More than five million satellite images were used to create the "time lapse" project in order to give people a more visual understanding of the changes occurring on earth.