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"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.\nSee also: Is There an Olympian From Your Hometown in Sochi Right Now?\nThe 2014 Winter Olympics are underway in Sochi after a spectacular \u2014 albeit a little strange and not quite flawless \u2014 opening ceremony.\nTake a look at these amazing images below.\n\n\nWinter-Olympics-NASA\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChamonix 1924\nA view of Chamonix, Switzerland. This image was acquired by Landsat 7\u2019s Enhanced Thematic Mapper plus (ETM+) sensor on July 30, 2001.\n\nImage:  NASA\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGarmisch-Partenkirchen 1936\nSimulated natural color scene of the region in the German state of North Rhine Westphalia, around 430 mi from Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.\n\nImage:  NASA\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOslo 1952\nPhoto of the Black Brant XII sounding rocket, launched on December 12, 2010, during the NASA-funded Rocket Experiment for Neutral Upwelling (RENU) from And\u00F8ya Rocket Range near Andenes, Norway.\n\nImage:  NASA\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCortina D'Ampezzo 1956\nNight 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. \n\nImage:  NASA\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSquaw Valley 1960\nA view of Squaw Valley, Calif., taken by the Landsat 7 Enhanced Thematic Mapper on Aug. 17, 1999.\n\nImage:  NASA\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInnsbruck 1964 and 1976\nView of Innsbruck, Austria and the Lake Constance region, taken by the MISR insturment on NASA's Terra satellite on Aug. 8, 2001.\n\nImage:  NASA\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGrenoble 1968\nView of Grenoble, France, captured by the Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus sensor on NASA\u2019s Landsat satellite on July 21, 2001.\n\nImage:  NASA\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSapporo 1972\nA satellite view of Sapporo, Japan, and its surrounding areas, including spectacularly colored sea currents, taken from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA\u2019s Aqua satellite from May 21, 2009.\n\nImage:  NASA\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLake Placid 1980\nGeneral 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.\n\nImage:  NASA\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSarajevo 1984\nView of Bosnia and surrounding countries, collected by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard the Aqua satellite on August 26, 2012.\n\nImage:  NASA\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCalgary 1988\nLandsat image of the Calgary, Canada metropolitan area for July, 1990. \n\nImage:  NASA\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAlbertville 1992\nA long view of Europe, in a composite assembled from data acquired by the Suomi NPP satellite in April and Oct. 2012.\n\nImage:  NASA\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLillehammer 1994\nGeneral view of Scandinavia, including Lillehammer, Nowray, acquired on March 15, 2002, by the Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), flying aboard NASA's Terra satellite.\n\nImage:  NASA\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNagano 1998\nGeneral view of Japan, taken by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Aqua satellite on February 20, 2004.\n\nImage:  NASA\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSalt Lake City 2002\nA simulated natural color image of north central Utah that includes all of the Olympic sites of the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics.\n\nImage:  NASA\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTurin 2006\nCity 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)\n\nImage:  NASA\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVancouver 2010\nA general view of the city of Vancouver, Canada captured by the Thematic Mapper on the Landsat 5 satellite on Sept. 7, 2011.\n\nImage:  NASA\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSochi 2014\nA view of Sochi mountain cluster, acquired by the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) instrument on NASA's Terra spacecraft.\n\nImage:  NASA\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHave something to add to this story? Share it in the comments."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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