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PyeongChang Olympic venues spotted from orbit.

Friday, February 9 marks the start of the 23rd Olympic Winter Games held this year in the PyeongChang region of South Korea.

Deimos 2 recently overflew the region and captured the main Olympic venues from orbit. The 35,000 seat pentagonal Olympic stadium, dominates the first image, followed by the Olympic Village where the 2,920 athletes participating reside.

Venues for hockey, curling, ice skating and speed skating are located in the Gangneung Olympic Park, seen in the third image.

The Ski Jumping Center hosts downhill skiing events while Bokwang Phoenix Park hosts freestyle skiing and snowboarding. The final image shows the 2,018 meter-long Olympic Sliding Center track where the luge, bobsleigh and skeleton events are held.

Taking yet another stunning image of a rocket on its launch pad, the Deimos-2 satellite flew over Kennedy Space Center April 29 and captured the NROL-76 Falcon 9 atop LC-39A. The Earth imaging satellite also captured the SES-9 Falcon 9 in February 2016 on SLC-40 and its accompanying droneship in the Atlantic Ocean. With a new fleet of commercial Earth Observation satellites in orbit, photography of launch sites has increased in recent years. WorldView-2 saw its companion satellite, WorldView-4, launch into space mid-flight last November, and Deimos-2 saw the CRS-10 Falcon 9 atop LC-39A in February.