Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Io moon

Io moon

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Original - Galileo spacecraft image of Io. The dark spot just left of center is the erupting volcano Prometheus. Whitish plains on either side of it are coated with volcanically emplaced sulfur dioxide frost, while yellower regions are encrusted with a higher proportion of sulfur.

Current FP proposed for delisting

Reason

High ev and quality

Articles in which this image appears

Io (moon)

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Space/Astronomy

Creator

NASA

• Support as nominator --Extra999 (talk) 13:43, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
• Support High encyclopedic and educational value, passes all 8 criteria IMO. Acather96 (talk) 14:02, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
• Support Awesome! I'm having trouble finding this volcano, though. Aaadddaaammm (talk) 16:01, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
• Comment: Are these natural colours? J Milburn (talk) 18:37, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

This color mosaic uses the near-infrared, green and violet filters (slightly more than the visible range) of the spacecraft's camera and approximates what the human eye would see. --Extra 999 (Contact ^me + _contribs) 03:20, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

How come the main color in each of the two are slightly different? Nergaal (talk) 04:51, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

• Comment: How about a delist & replace? 85.211.112.212 (talk) 19:24, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

The old FP shows the moon rotated 90o. It is like showing earth from above centered on the Atlantic Ocean vs centered on India. Ideally we should have a set where the two images are 180o away. I am not convinced that having two 90o away is bad, so I would support both as FP. Nergaal (talk) 00:17, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

Better delist that one because it has low compared resolution and is not exactly round. --Extra 999 (Contact ^me + _contribs) 03:27, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

Ah, I missed the right crop. Delist and replace then. Nergaal (talk) 04:48, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

• Delist and replace. Clear resolution and jpeg quality advantage. Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 10:29, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
• Delist and replace, though I do think the crop a little tight. J Milburn (talk) 00:49, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

However, it is better than the earlier one. --Extra 999 (Contact ^me + _contribs) 01:12, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

• Delist and replace --George Chernilevsky ^talk 11:10, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
• Replace: Better. Maedin\^talk 07:50, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
• Replace – The new one looks better. —MC10 (T•C•GB•L) 23:28, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

Replaced with File:Io highest resolution true color.jpg --Makeemlighter (talk) 01:09, 10 November 2010 (UTC)