False color Image of the skiing and snowboarding sites for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, acquired on Jan. 4, 2014, by the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) instrument on NASA's Terra spacecraft. Rosa Khutar ski resort near Sochi, Russia, is in the valley at center, and the runs are visible on the shadowed slopes on the left-hand side of the valley. Height has been exaggerated times to bring out topographic details. In this southwest-looking image, red indicates vegetation, white is snow, and the resort site appears in gray.

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