It's not often that the Winter Olympic Games come with an ocean view, but that's what we are getting this year at the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russia. Sochi is the warmest city ever to host the winter games, which officially run from Feb.
7 through Feb. 23.
This image of the Sochi Olympic venues was acquired on Jan. 4, 2014, by the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) instrument on NASA's Terra spacecraft. This image centers on the Rosa Khutar ski resort in the mountains near Sochi. That's where the alpine Olympic events will be held. The resort is in the valley at center, and the ski runs are visible on the shadowed slopes on the left-hand side of the valley. The runs may be rated double black diamond, but they're not quite as steep as they appear in this image. Height is exaggerated 1.5 times to bring out topographic details.
In this images, red indicates vegetation, white is snow, buildings appear in gray, and the ocean is dark blue.
For all of NASA's Winter Olympics materials, visithttp://www.nasa.gov/olympics
Image Credit: NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS, & U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team
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