What if we had satellite imagery of the Earth going back thousands of years into the past? Or into the future? A team at the Zurich School of Applied Sciences has created exactly that: an animated, and quite realistic-looking, map of Earth covering 21,000 years. It shows the evolution of the Earth’s surface, including sea levels, coast lines, ice cover, and vegetation from 19000 BC to 3000 AD.
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