Brazil's national football stadium, the Estado NacÃonal, lies near the heart of the capital city of BrasÃlia. The roof appears as a brilliant white ring in this photograph taken from the International Space Station. The stadium is one of BrasÃlia's largest buildings. Renovation began in 2010, and now it is the second-most-expensive stadium in the world after London's Wembley Stadium.
To accommodate World Cup fans visiting from all over the world, renovations were made to nearly all modes of transportation”particularly airports”in BrasÃlia and other host cities. BrasÃlia's international airport is visible at lower right of the accompanying image, on the far side of Lake Paranoá.
Image courtesy of NASA.
