Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Blue Marble 2001-2002 composite image

Blue Marble 2001-2002 composite image
Voting period ends on 10 May 2012 at 10:23:20 (UTC)
 * Reason:Large clear image used in multiple articles
 * Articles in which this image appears:Sustainability, Origin of water on Earth, Environmental science, The Blue Marble, and others
 * FP category for this image:Featured pictures/Space/Looking back
 * Creator:NASA


 * Support as nominator --Pine(talk) 10:23, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Oppose I'd like to support, but for the life of me I don't understand why NASA either didn't make these composite images all-day or at least realistically portray the night. As it stands, its simultaneously night over both the Atlantic and South America in the image on the left and night over East Asia, Australia and the Pacific in the image on the right, while Europe and North America are enjoying lots of sunshine. As such, the image's EV is fairly limited I'm afraid. Nick-D (talk) 08:53, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
 * When the satellite took the pictures for the composite, they probably preferred taking the pictures when the sun was shining on that part of the Earth. The pictures wouldn't have any value at all if only one picture was light and the other was dark. Hence the difference as far as the daytime-nighttime shadow goes. In other words, pictures for both of the composites were taken at different times, so the shadow is going to be at a different spot in both pictures. Dusty 777 17:47, 4 May 2012 (UTC)


 * Support per nom. Clegs (engage in rational discourse) 06:22, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

--Makeemlighter (talk) 10:35, 10 May 2012 (UTC)