Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/EPOXI moon transits Earth
Lunar transit of Earth[edit]
Original - The moon transiting the Earth, as viewed from NASA's EPOXI spacecraft on May 28-29, 2008
- Reason
- Extraordinary astronomy video- and remarkably, for an astronomy video, it's pretty self-explanatory. The globe in the lower left indicates what portion of the Earth is visible at any given moment. (There's a version of the image on NASA's website without the globe). Regarding the relatively low-resolution, NASA's website explains: "The movie is put together from just a small portion of the actual frame (no need to show alot of empty space!) and of course was taken from 31 million miles away." [1]
- Articles this image appears in
- EPOXI. (I just uploaded it there, other article suggestions welcome).
- Creator
- NASA (NASA asked me to use the following video credit line when they confirmed the PD status to me via email): "Video Credit: Donald J. Lindler, Sigma Space Corporation and NASA/JPL-Caltech/GSFC/UMD"
- Support as nominator --Spikebrennan (talk) 04:25, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
- Removed large animation (4 MB) from display. MER-C 06:32, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
- Oppose Simply too fuzzy for FP. Interesting, though. --Janke | Talk 17:06, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
- Support given that this was taken from 31 million miles away, I think I can forgive the amount of fuzziness. It's a very interesting, one of a kind image. -- Grandpafootsoldier (talk) 19:21, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
- Oppose This gigantic GIF would be happier in a more apropriate video format. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Uncle.bungle (talk • contribs) 21:42, 3 August 2008
- Support reminds me of the iconic view of the earth from the moon's surface. de Bivort 22:03, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
- Oppose per Janke. Papa Lima Whiskey (talk; todo) 09:55, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
Not promoted . --John254 01:50, 11 August 2008 (UTC)