Ice can be seen in the Hudson River along Manhattan's shore. (Landsat 8/NASA via SWNS)
By Dean Murray
Cool pictures show America's chilly recent weather from space.
Fascinating images taken by a satellite and an astronaut show entire cities blanketed in white.
NASA's Landsat 8 satellite documented ice in the Hudson River hugging the shore of Manhattan amid a deep freeze in late January.
Meanwhile, International Space Station crewmember Chris Williams asked social media users to guess the locations from his sky-high pictures.
The NASA spaceman posted on Monday, Feb. 2: "One question we often get asked is if we can see major storms from space, such as the one that blanketed much of the country in snow last week.
(Chris Williams/ISS via SWNS)
"Yes! We can see them, but from above, storms like that look just like a large area covered in clouds (although some storms, like hurricanes, have a structure you can see).
"We can definitely see the results – we had a pass up the East Coast a few days later, and I was able to get pictures of a few cities blanketed in snow. Can you identify them?"
X user Sean Skelton was able to correctly ID the locations, answering: "Washington DC, New York and Boston. I’ve spent an inordinate amount of time exploring the planet on Google Earth."