Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Aral Sea

Aral Sea in 1989 and 2008
Voting period ends on 26 Jun 2014  at 23:20:10 (UTC)
 * Reason:good quality, striking visuals. Alt animations don't seem to be so striking.
 * FP category for this image:Featured pictures/Space/Looking back
 * Articles in which this image appears:Aral Sea, Environmental resource management Uzbekistan
 * Creator:NASA and Zafiroblue05
 * Creator:NASA and Zafiroblue05


 * Support as nominator – Nergaal (talk) 23:20, 16 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Support original Even though it's some 29 px short of the required minimum, the changes throughout the years are horrific. Brandmeistertalk  18:13, 17 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Support original horrific.Hafspajen (talk) 23:25, 17 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Support original --Alchemist-hp (talk) 06:34, 18 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Comment I take it there's no alternative for the 1989 image that doesn't have the horizontal line (presumably a sattelite stitch)? If so, Support. Adam Cuerden (talk) 20:25, 19 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Since 1989 is pre-Internet, I doubt that a better alternative may be found even in the dark Internet. Nergaal (talk) 09:10, 20 June 2014 (UTC)
 * A fair point. Adam Cuerden (talk) 18:40, 20 June 2014 (UTC)


 * Support original One of the greatest ecological tragedies of our time. -- Ե րևանցի talk  04:21, 21 June 2014 (UTC)

--Armbrust The Homunculus 00:12, 27 June 2014 (UTC)