Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Leaving Earth

Leaving Earth
Voting period ends on 10 May 2015  at 22:38:28 (UTC)
 * Reason:why you think it meets the FPC criteria and should be featured (check criteria first)
 * Articles in which this image appears:MESSENGER, just added to Escape velocity and Earth
 * FP category for this image:Featured pictures/Space/Getting there
 * Creator:NASA


 * Support as nominator – Nergaal (talk) 22:38, 30 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Comment - The video is used in what is essentially a gallery. Not too sure of the EV. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:29, 30 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Support – Oh, my gosh. Can you imagine being in a spaceship, at the beginning of a journey to another planet or solar system, and seeing your home planet getting smaller and smaller as it recedes? Until that becomes a reality, and passengers take videos out the window, this is as close as we're going to get to that view. For that alone, I think it has EV. CorinneSD (talk) 00:08, 1 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Oppose -- As Crisco. Nice animation but not really exceptional as EV is concerned. Alvesgaspar (talk) 12:27, 1 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Support as I don't think we have anything better that's not a computer-generated animation. I've added this to the articles Escape velocity and Earth. I think the EV is highest for the Escape velocity article. --Pine✉ 04:50, 2 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Added it to Gravity assist and Interplanetary spaceflight also. Nergaal (talk) 08:58, 2 May 2015 (UTC)


 * Oppose for now. The video does seem to add to the new articles, but perhaps this could be renominated in a month or so if it has stayed in them prominently? Josh Milburn (talk) 12:29, 3 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Support - Wholeheartedly agree with @CorinneSD. Years ago when WP:FP had a much smaller collection, every image was breathtaking. As the collection has grown significantly, the criteria of whether or not a picture "is among Wikipedia's best work" has fell by the wayside in favor of EV, resolution, and technique. This is unavoidable unfortunately, but, in this case, Leaving Earth really shines as one of Wikipedia's best works. I feel like the EV it's lacking is not a result of a poor image, but instead a result of articles not showcasing this image well enough. I hope people can see how wonderfully unique this image is and how it stands out among our set of pictures. chsh (talk) 16:52, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

--Armbrust The Homunculus 02:54, 11 May 2015 (UTC)