Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/NASA Apollo 17 Lunar Roving Vehicle

Apollo 17 lunar rover

Original - Astronaut Eugene A. Cernan, commander, makes a short checkout of the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) during the early part of the first Apollo 17 Extravehicular Activity (EVA-1) at the Taurus-Littrow landing site. This view of the "stripped down" LRV is prior to loading up. Equipment later loaded onto the LRV included the ground-controlled television assembly, the lunar communications relay unit, hi-gain antenna, low-gain antenna, aft tool pallet, lunar tools and scientific gear. [from the original NASA caption]

Reason

Although there are things that could be better - the full set of equipment could have been attached to the rover, for instance - the Lunar rover was only used on the last three Apollo missions, and as such, if we want an image of it in use on the moon, our selection is limited. I think this image has superb composition, has a wonderful shot of Cernan [in his spacesuit, of course], and is just generally exciting. It must be said that it looks better at lower resolutions than full, but I'm uncomfortable downsampling, due to, well, loss of information from an irreproducable photo.

Articles this image appears in

List of Apollo astronauts, I've added it to Lunar rover as it's the best shot of it in operation I know of.

Creator

Harrison H. Schmitt

• Support as nominator Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 12:34, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
• Support--Mbz1 (talk) 14:17, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
• Support —αἰτίας •discussion• 18:19, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
• Support --Uncle Bungle (talk) 03:54, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
• Support Doesn't do much for me, personally, but the obvious historical importance and acceptable quality leads me to support. faithless (^speak) 06:10, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
• Support per nom. Juliancolton ^{The storm still blows...} 12:53, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
• Support For encyclopedic value. --Cpl Syx (talk) 02:51, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
• Support -as per above --Booksworm ^{Sprechen-sie Koala?} 09:00, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
• Weak oppose Those crosses placed throughout picture are a little annoying. crassic\^talk 20:25, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Support Changed vote. crassic\^talk 18:07, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Unfortunately, pretty much all Apollo lunar surface pictures have them. They're artefacts of the camera used. Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 21:44, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
  • IMHO they're an important part of the picture. This wasn't a day in the park shooting flowers with a Canon Digital SLR, it was shot on the surface of the moon, 35 years ago, very extreme technical conditions. --Uncle Bungle (talk) 16:15, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

• Support Don't really understand why those crosses had to be there, but they don't seem too bothering to me. diego_pmc (talk) 15:34, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
  • It's something to do with the camera - I don't know the exact details, but may have something to do with the modifications that allowed it to be used on the moon. Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 16:26, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
    • The crosses are on the pressure plate ("Reseau" plate) in the special NASA Hasselblad camera. The plate keeps the film flat, and aids in photogrammetric measurements. --Janke | Talk 18:22, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
• oppose unnecessary shadow and odd angle obscure most of vehicle. Why not image:Apollo 15 Lunar Rover final resting place (cropped).jpg?

Promoted Image:NASA_Apollo_17_Lunar_Roving_Vehicle.jpg --Malachirality (talk) 18:22, 13 March 2008 (UTC)