From their exclusive lookout more
than 200 miles above Earth, the six astronauts and cosmonauts currently living
aboard the International Space Station have a stunning view of the 2014 Winter
Olympics park in Sochi, Russia.
At night, the spaceflyers can even
see the Olympic flame burning.
NASA released an image this week
showing the brightly lit Sochi sporting complex, captured by one of the
Expedition 38 crewmembers aboard the orbiting outpost. [More Photos:
The Sochi Winter Olympics and Space Travel]
Like millions of other people
around the globe, the astronauts and cosmonauts on the space station are
keeping tabs on the 2014 Winter Olympic Games, which kicked off on on Feb. 7.
With two crewmembers from the
United States, one from Japan and three from Russia, NASA astronaut Rick
Mastracchio told SPACE.com last month that there might be some
friendly competition during the games — and that they could even wager their
space food to raise the stakes.
The space station was involved in
2014 Olympics in an unprecedented way. As part of the months-long torch relay
leading up to the lavish opening ceremony, the Olympic torch was flown the
orbiting outpost late last year. Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kotov and Sergey
Ryazanskiy brought the torch outside of the space station during a spacewalk
before it accompanied another crew on a flight back to Earth.
Camera-equipped satellites have also captured images of Sochi's Olympic Park from space. Photos taken over the past eight years by DigitalGlobe's fleet of satellites orbiting Earth traced the construction Sochi's new sporting venues and other facilities city.
NASA also released images captured by its Earth-watching
Terra satellite, showing both the Sochi Olympic
Park Coastal Cluster, which hugs the shores of the Black Sea, and
one of the resorts in the mountains near Sochi where the alpine ski
competitions will take place.
NASA released a
nighttime image on Feb. 11, 2104 showing theSochi Olympic Park seen
from space. An Expedition 38astronaut
on the International
Space Station took this photo on from orbit. Image released Feb.
10, 2014. Credit:
NASA View full size image
From their exclusive lookout more than 200 miles above Earth, the six astronauts
and cosmonauts currently living aboard the International Space Station have a
stunning view of the 2014 Winter Olympics park inSochi, Russia. At night,
the spaceflyers can even see the Olympic flameburning. NASA released an image this week showing
the brightly lit Sochisporting
complex, captured by one of the
Expedition 38 crewmembers aboard the orbiting outpost.
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