To fashion and maintain ski routes on 's arid Xiaohaituo Mountain, the Beijing will use a whopping 42.4 million cubic feet of controversial fake snow produced by hundreds of machines. And nowhere is the astonishing artifice of this 'winter wonderland' more clear than in a satellite image of the Yanqing Olympic Zone — home to the alpine skiing and sliding events — recently released by .The shot, taken by Landsat 8's Operational Land Imager instrument on 29 January, throws the difference between the tracks of white and the rest of the bare mountain into sharp relief.
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