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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 07:16, 1 December 2017 (UTC)

Remote sensing (geology)[edit]

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Richat Structure by Shuttle Radar Topography Mission

~~... that remote sensing (example pictured) helps geologists study otherwise inaccessible areas, even other planets?~~
- ALT1:~~... that remote sensing (example pictured) can help geological studies of inaccessible areas where earth scientists find it hard to reach?~~

Reviewed: Juanita Musson
Comment: part of University of Hong Kong/Regional Geology (Fall Semester 2017)

Moved to mainspace by Wcpatrick6572 (talk). Nominated by Graeme Bartlett (talk) at 09:52, 18 November 2017 (UTC).

Substantial scientific article, on excellent sources, well illustrated, no copyvio obvious. - The original is more to the point and more interesting. The image is unfortunately very obscure in small size, and the caption doesn't help much. Drop it? Leave it just to get attention, with a better caption? - The topic is well beyond my capabilities of grasping science, but I checked that it is written in fluent English. I made several formatting changes: a space needs to go after a ref, but not before. I changed them for beginning and end, but please complete the task in the middle. I didn't change in the lead, because ideally that should only summarize what's in the body and then doesn't need any ref. Please see if you want to move some of it to Overview, only leaving a summary. The planets (= hook fact) appear at present only in the lead. - I confess that I prefer to see an image below a header, not next to it. I urge you to think about image sizes. They should be specified not in pixels, but as an upright relative parameter, for example 1.1 instead of 250px, to adjust to users' preferences. Some images seem very large, - please check where you may improve the layout. - Now the hook: could we word something that relates more closely to the image? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:49, 25 November 2017 (UTC)

I have completed the reference spacing fixes. There is a whole section on Planetary observation which talks about observing planets and moons. On the topic of pictures there is one of an ice shelf in Antarctica which is an example of a hard to reach area. Some images are boosted in size in the artcle, so that you can see the detail or read embedded text. They could probably be tidied, but that is not a DYK requirement! Graeme Bartlett (talk) 12:56, 26 November 2017 (UTC)

Thank you, I like the alt image much better. Can you perhaps word a hook around that, as an example? If not, write a caption explaining that it is a sample of images as the result of RS, - but that is long ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:16, 29 November 2017 (UTC)

Filchner ice shelf, Antarctica

ALT2: ... that remote sensing helps geologists study otherwise inaccessible areas such as Antarctic ice shelves (example pictured)?

Graeme Bartlett (talk) 20:18, 29 November 2017 (UTC)

Thank you, ALT2 approved, offline sources accepted AGF. I moved the image to the hook. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:40, 29 November 2017 (UTC)