Winter Olympics from Outer Space
Those who believe that NASA and the Winter Olympics do not match are wrong. Even from space, the sports are observed - and so it brought us a few nice pictures.
Sochi from far above
Just in time for the Winter Olympics, the U.S space agency NASA published satelitle images of Sochi and previous host cities. This is Sochi shortly after the Winter Games were opened. Clearly visible: The circular 'Fisht' Olympic Stadium, named after a 2857 meter high mountain in the province of Adygea, which borders Sochi.
Olympics put Sochi on the map
Even the whole construction work for the Winter Olympics in Sochi was being observed from NASA. Everything had to be built from scratch - there were no sports venues in Sochi at all, before the Olympic Games were awarded.
Idyllic Vancouver
The host of the 2010 Winter Olympics: Vancouver in Canada. The River Fraser, coming from the Rocky Mountains, flows here to the Strait of Georgia, a link to the Pacific.
Turin with the moonlight
A look on the French-Italian border from the International Space Station (ISS) with the cities of Lyon, Marseille and Turin, the host of the 2006 Winter Olympic Games. At the top of the picture you can see the sea surface reflecting the full moon.
Winter at Salt Lake
It was here the 2002 Winter Olympics were held: Salt Lake City in the USA, between the snow-topped Wasatch mountains and the Great Salt Lake. The image was taken by ASTER, one of the five main instruments on board the NASA earth oberservation Terra satelite.
Brightly lit France
The night is illuminated - not only in Albertville, central France, where the 1992 Winter Olympics took place, but also in other urban areas in Europe.