This article is over 5 years old and may contain outdated information.

Mapping

Quiz: Identify Canadian cities in astronaut Chris Hadfield's photos

  • May 14, 2013
  • 129 words
  • 1 minutes
Expand Image
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement

For five months, astronaut Chris Hadfield has kept the world’s rapt attention from the International Space Station as he beamed photos and videos down to Earth. More than 900,000 Twitter followers waited for his latest pictures, which Hadfield liked to capture while the ISS passed over Canadian cities.

But even in the age of Google Earth, many cities as seen from space can be difficult to identify without roads, bodies of water, or other landmarks labeled. Even Hadfield himself sometimes recruited the help of his social media followers to identify European cities and obscure landmarks. See how well you do identifying some of Canada’s cities and landforms in Hadfield’s pictures in the slideshow below.

Expand Image
Click on this photo to take the quiz. (Photos: Chris Hadfield/Canadian Space Agency)
Expand Image
Expand Image
Expand Image
Expand Image
Expand Image
Expand Image
Expand Image
Expand Image
Expand Image
Expand Image
Expand Image
Expand Image
Expand Image
Expand Image
Expand Image
Expand Image
Expand Image
Expand Image
Expand Image
Expand Image
Expand Image
Advertisement

Help us tell Canada’s story

You can support Canadian Geographic in 3 ways:

Related Content

Science & Tech

Ten reasons why we love Chris Hadfield

Over the past five months, Commander Chris Hadfield has stolen the hearts of millions as he zooms around the Earth’s orbit, sending tweets to internet users far below. These…

  • 731 words
  • 3 minutes

Science & Tech

Q&A: Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield

At age nine, Chris Hadfield decided he wanted to become an astronaut. Lots of children do. The difference is that forty years later Hadfield is orbiting Earth as soon-to-be…

  • 1023 words
  • 5 minutes
Astronaut Chris Hadfield captured the world’s attention with YouTube videos from space.

People & Culture

The change makers: Chris Hadfield

The retired astronaut transformed how people around the world view — and interact — with space

  • 607 words
  • 3 minutes

People & Culture

Astronaut Chris Hadfield on “The Apollo Murders,” his thrilling novel of the Space Race

Episode 21

Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield discusses how his own experiences in space informed his first novel, a classic Cold War-era spy thriller 

  • 45 minutes
Advertisement
Advertisement