Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Mars Pathfinder Presidential Panorama

Mars Pathfinder Presidential Panorama

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Original – Various images of the Sojourner rover shot by the Pathfinder cameras have been composited into the 360 degree Presidential Panorama. Since the camera's position was consistent, it is thus possible to see these images of the rover in the context of the entire landscape. This provides a visual scale for understanding the sizes and distances of rocks surrounding the lander as well as a record of the travels of the rover. Several of the rover images were captured in full color. The rest were colorized using color sampled from those frames.

Reason

high resolution, interesting composition, image demonstrates all places visited by the rover as seen from the lander

Articles in which this image appears

Sojourner (rover)

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Space/Panorama

Creator

NASA/JPL

• Support as nominator – Artem.G (talk) 07:15, 9 October 2021 (UTC)
• Support TheFreeWorld (talk) 07:40, 9 October 2021 (UTC)
• Comment – good image but it doesn't meet the minimum 1500 pixels requirement of FP criterion 2. Bammesk (talk) 17:40, 9 October 2021 (UTC)

  Agree, but "Exceptions to this rule may be made where justified on a case-by-case basis, such as for historical, technically difficult or otherwise unique images, if no higher resolution could realistically be acquired." The image was created by NASA, and no other version is available. Artem.G (talk) 18:17, 9 October 2021 (UTC)

• I agree, the exception covers this case. The photo is a 360 degree view (I am comparing the foreground with this photo). The image caption in the article (Commons file description too) can/should say it's a 360 view. Bammesk (talk) 19:17, 9 October 2021 (UTC)

• Caption updated. Artem.G (talk) 19:23, 9 October 2021 (UTC)

• Support – I added source details to clarify this composite image was created at NASA. Bammesk (talk) 16:49, 10 October 2021 (UTC)

• Support – Yann (talk) 20:04, 11 October 2021 (UTC)
• Support --Janke | Talk 15:15, 12 October 2021 (UTC)

Promoted File:Mars Pathfinder Presidential Panorama.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 17:36, 19 October 2021 (UTC)