Drag the time slider left or right to change the time zone. Turn on the sunlight feature to view the effect of the sun and sunlight across the landscape and by clicking on “sunlight” you will get the level of sunlight at your current location. If you want, you can even import GPS tracks from a specific time. There is an option to zoom in /out to change start and end dates that have been covered by your timeline. Click on view and then on ‘Historical Imagery’ to see the image you want for a particular time. Just go to Google Earth and enter a location in the search bar.

Although Google Earth displays current imagery automatically, you can also see how images have changed over time and view past versions of a map. To get old satellite imagery, you require the desktop version of Google Earth. Based on your requirement and accuracy level, you can get old satellite imagery every using several platforms, including Google Earth. Old images are mainly used to detect changes over time for a particular region.

Google earth aerial view