Landsat @ 40 ~ Timelapse Earthwatch Imagery...

Phil Vinter at the DailyMail spotlights The changing face of Earth: Dramatic high-resolution satellite images show how the world has been transformed over the last four decades...

"...all taken by a fleet of Earth-observing satellites that form part of the Landsat program, which celebrates its 40th anniversary tomorrow. Jointly managed by NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the initiative has been consistently gathering data about our planet since 23 July, 1972. [...] This makes it the world's longest-running satellite program for global land observations. Its archive of images forms an impartial, comprehensive, and easily accessed register of human and natural changes to the Earth."