Wow! Sochi Winter Olympics Park Seen from Space at Night (Photo)

NASA released a nighttime image on Feb. 11, 2104 showing the Sochi Olympic Park seen from space. An Expedition 38 astronaut on the International Space Station took this photo on from orbit.. Image released Feb. 10, 2014. — NASA released a nighttime image on Feb. 11, 2104 showing the Sochi Olympic Park seen from space. An Expedition 38 astronaut on the International Space Station took this photo on from orbit. Image released Feb. 10, 2014. (Image credit: NASA)

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.

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.

Sunlight glints off the International Space Station.

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.

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Megan has been writing for Live Science and Space.com since 2012. Her interests range from archaeology to space exploration, and she has a bachelor's degree in English and art history from New York University. Megan spent two years as a reporter on the national desk at NewsCore. She has watched dinosaur auctions, witnessed rocket launches, licked ancient pottery sherds in Cyprus and flown in zero gravity on a Zero Gravity Corp. to follow students sparking weightless fires for science. Follow her on Twitter for her latest project.