The winter Olympics are underway in Nagano, Japan, and NOAA has posted a high-resolution satellite image of Japan on the World Wide Web, taken from one of NOAA's polar-orbiting environmental satellites.

Partly cloudy skies prevailed over Nagano at the time of this image. Multichannel color imagery was processed and posted to the CEOS Disaster Management Home Page: http://www.ceos.noaa.gov/SPECIAL/SNOW/olympic2.gif