The video above shows what happened on Earth over the last year in less than three minutes. It's not an overview of the news or the lives of ordinary people, though.

It's a video show from one million miles away by the DSCOVER satellite's EPIC camera. The project began in July 2015. The footage has been recorded from Lagrange point 1, an orbital location a million miles away from Earth.

Here's time lapse footage of the Earth as seen from the International Space Station.

Here are 28 years of satellite imagery of the Earth blended together into a single video. A glacier shrinks, a rainforest disappears and a US city expands.