NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center collected images of all the cities and surrounding areas that have hosted the Winter Olympics since 1924. Most of these photos were taken by satellites, but some are from astronauts who were living on board the International Space Station.
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Take a look at these amazing images below.
A view of Chamonix, Switzerland. This image was acquired by Landsat 7’s Enhanced Thematic Mapper plus (ETM+) sensor on July 30, 2001.
Simulated natural color scene of the region in the German state of North Rhine Westphalia, around 430 mi from Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.
Photo of the Black Brant XII sounding rocket, launched on December 12, 2010, during the NASA-funded Rocket Experiment for Neutral Upwelling (RENU) from Andøya Rocket Range near Andenes, Norway.
Night view of Italy, photographed by one of the Expedition 30 crew members aboard the International Space Station flying approximately 240 miles above the Tyrrhenian Sea on Jan. 25, 2012.
A view of Squaw Valley, Calif., taken by the Landsat 7 Enhanced Thematic Mapper on Aug. 17, 1999.
View of Innsbruck, Austria and the Lake Constance region, taken by the MISR insturment on NASA's Terra satellite on Aug. 8, 2001.
View of Grenoble, France, captured by the Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus sensor on NASA’s Landsat satellite on July 21, 2001.
A satellite view of Sapporo, Japan, and its surrounding areas, including spectacularly colored sea currents, taken from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite from May 21, 2009.
General view of New York State, in a satellite picture collected by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard the Aqua satellite on August 26, 2012.
View of Bosnia and surrounding countries, collected by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard the Aqua satellite on August 26, 2012.
Landsat image of the Calgary, Canada metropolitan area for July, 1990.
A long view of Europe, in a composite assembled from data acquired by the Suomi NPP satellite in April and Oct. 2012.
General view of Scandinavia, including Lillehammer, Nowray, acquired on March 15, 2002, by the Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), flying aboard NASA's Terra satellite.
General view of Japan, taken by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Aqua satellite on February 20, 2004.
A simulated natural color image of north central Utah that includes all of the Olympic sites of the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics.
City lights shine at night along the France-Italy border, in this image photographed by an Expedition 23 crew member on the International Space Station (ISS) (Date unspecified)
A general view of the city of Vancouver, Canada captured by the Thematic Mapper on the Landsat 5 satellite on Sept. 7, 2011.
A view of Sochi mountain cluster, acquired by the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) instrument on NASA's Terra spacecraft.
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