The FIFA Women’s World Cup is underway, and we just got a birds-eye view of two of the stadiums which are hosting the soccer motion.
On Thursday (July 20), San Francisco-based company Planet tweeted out satellite photos of Eden Park in Auckland, Recent Zealand and Stadium Australia (also generally known as Accor Stadium) in Sydney.
On that very same day, the venues hosted the primary two games of the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup: Recent Zealand versus Norway in Eden Park and Australia against Ireland at the Sydney site. The house teams won 1-0 in each cases, as Planet noted.
“Two home team victories to kick off opening day of @FIFAWWC at @edenparknz and @AccorStadium. The 2 games drew a record crowd of 117,921 in attendance. Congrats to @TheMatildas and @NZ_Football Ferns!” Planet wrote in the tweet, referring to the nicknames of the 2 sides.
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Planet is probably best known for its huge constellation of Doves, shoebox-sized cubesats that beam home detailed imagery of our home planet.
However the two stadium shots were captured by larger, even sharper-eyed spacecraft generally known as SkySats. And they are not in-game motion shots; Eden Park was photographed on May 24, and Stadium Australia was captured on July 10, Planet representatives told Space.com via email.
Two home team victories to kick off opening day of @FIFAWWC at @edenparknz and @AccorStadium. 🏆 The 2 games drew a record crowd of 117,921 in attendance.Congrats to @TheMatildas and @NZ_Football Ferns! ⚽#FIFAWWC #BeyondGreatness #FIFAWomensWorldCup2023 pic.twitter.com/vRIKZhAyzvJuly 20, 2023
The FIFA Women’s World Cup runs through Aug. 20, when the championship game shall be played. Like the lads’s World Cup, the tournament is held every 4 years. This yr, Australia and Recent Zealand are co-hosting, with games being played at 10 different venues across the 2 nations.
America has won the past two Women’s World Cups and is a powerful contender to threepeat. The squad comes into the tournament ranked primary on this planet and plays its first game, against Vietnam, tonight (July 21) at 9 p.m. EDT (0100 GMT on July 22) at Eden Park.