World Cup, Soccer City Stadium as Seen From Space

The site of the June 11 opening game for the 2010 World Cup, Soccer City sits in Johannesburg?s Soweto Township. Previously named the FNB Stadium, the facility underwent an upgrade for the 2010 World Cup games. The Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on NASA?s Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite captured this natural-color image of the stadium on May 14, 2009, while upgrades were apparently still in progress. Shaped roughly like a rectangle with rounded corners, the stadium sports high walls that cast [...]

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