"Explore Earth from a New Perspective with Free Space Viewing Tools"

Free and user-friendly programs are now available to enable anyone to create time-lapse animations from satellite images. Open-access data from government satellites such as Landsat and Sentinel, and free cloud-computing resources such as Amazon Web Services, Google Earth Engine, and Microsoft Planetary Computer, have made it possible for just about anyone to gain insight into environmental changes underway. Visualization tools such as Snazzy-EE-TS-GIF, an Earth Engine App for creating Landsat animations, and Planetary Computer Explorer, an explorer for searching and visualizing satellite imagery interactively, are also available.