Hawaii

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Reason

The image is a quality demonstration of the macro climate patterns of the archipelago. It adds to a readers understanding of the concepts described in its caption in a meaningful way. The technicals of the image are easily up to snuff by our standards (the horizontal lines in the water with slight colour shifts are, as I understand it, necessary to create these images from this kind of satellite).

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Hawaii

FP category for this image

Looking back

Creator

NASA

• Support as nominator -- Cowtowner ( talk) 20:57, 25 August 2010 (UTC) reply
• Comment: What's with the red stuff on the bottom island? J Milburn ( talk) 21:25, 25 August 2010 (UTC) reply

• The sources site says that "The small red dot on the Big Island’s southeastern side marks a hot spot on Kilauea Volcano’s southern flank. Kilauea has been erupting almost continuously since January 1983, and is one of the world’s best studied volcanoes." P. S. Burton ( talk) 21:38, 25 August 2010 (UTC) reply

• Right, I meant to mention that. Red spots on almost all NASA images are active volcanoes or ongoing fires as I understand it, nothing we can really do about it with compromising the image. Cowtowner ( talk) 22:59, 25 August 2010 (UTC) reply

• I'm really not wild about it... J Milburn ( talk) 23:02, 25 August 2010 (UTC) reply

• I'm not "wild" about it either, but we have an image that has a multitude of the same artifact and is taken from the same satellite (or type, at least). Fact is NASA uses these images for a variety of purposes, 50 or so red pixels is the price we pay for that here. To me, it doesn't hold the image back from being amongst our finest. Cowtowner ( talk) 23:22, 25 August 2010 (UTC) reply

• Support Interesting lighting as viewed from space. Quite sharp; NASA must have used a pretty nice camera on their Terra MODIS satellite. Greg L ( talk) 01:11, 26 August 2010 (UTC) reply
• Oppose. Sorry, the NASA-added red outline really ruins it for me. The EV is also not sky-high, though I certainly would be supporting without the red. Is it worth contacting NASA? J Milburn ( talk) 19:28, 26 August 2010 (UTC) reply
  • I don't suppose there's any harm in it; we may be lucky and it'll just be on a separate layer of some PSD file. I'm disappointed that the smaller number of red dots ruined it for you; but, to each his own. Cowtowner ( talk) 04:25, 28 August 2010 (UTC) reply
• Support Per Greg L... gazhiley.co.uk 13:04, 29 August 2010 (UTC) reply
• Weak support I wouldn't have nominated this if I'd noticed that little line either, but it's ok otherwise. -- I'ḏ ♥ One 17:28, 29 August 2010 (UTC) reply
  • I thought Cowtowner nom'd this?! gazhiley.co.uk 21:18, 29 August 2010 (UTC) reply
    • You missed the "either", and I've seen a couple of other satellite images with a little line, that's what I meant. =) -- I'ḏ ♥ One 03:28, 30 August 2010 (UTC) reply
      • Ah sorry, mis-read it... hehe Thanks... was all confuzzled! gazhiley.co.uk 21:53, 30 August 2010 (UTC) reply
        • Support edit, I removed the line best I could. -- I'ḏ ♥ One 22:28, 1 September 2010 (UTC) reply
• Strong Support edit changed pref as edit now available and prefer that... Nice work IdLoveOne... gazhiley.co.uk 09:42, 2 September 2010 (UTC) reply

Awaiting clarification of vote from J Milburn, regarding the red line. Jujutacular  ^talk 03:42, 5 September 2010 (UTC) reply

• Yup, support edit. J Milburn ( talk) 09:32, 5 September 2010 (UTC) reply

Promoted File:Hawaje-NoRedLine.jpg -- Jujutacular  ^talk 02:37, 7 September 2010 (UTC) reply