Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Blue Marble 2001-2002 composite image

Blue Marble 2001-2002 composite image

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**Original** – The images's description page reads, "NASA created these two images to exhibit high-resolution global composites of Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) data. The land surface data were acquired from June through September of 2001. The clouds were acquired on two separate days--July 29, 2001, for the northern hemisphere and November 16, 2001 for the southern hemisphere. The images were rendered in Electric Image and composited in Adobe Photoshop in late January, 2002."

Reason: Large clear image used in multiple articles
Articles in which this image appears: Sustainability, Origin of water on Earth, Environmental science, The Blue Marble, and others
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Space/Looking back
Creator: NASA

Support as nominator --Pine^(talk) 10:23, 1 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose I'd like to support, but for the life of me I don't understand why NASA either didn't make these composite images all-day or at least realistically portray the night. As it stands, its simultaneously night over both the Atlantic and South America in the image on the left and night over East Asia, Australia and the Pacific in the image on the right, while Europe and North America are enjoying lots of sunshine. As such, the image's EV is fairly limited I'm afraid. Nick-D (talk) 08:53, 2 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

When the satellite took the pictures for the composite, they probably preferred taking the pictures when the sun was shining on that part of the Earth. The pictures wouldn't have any value at all if only one picture was light and the other was dark. Hence the difference as far as the daytime-nighttime shadow goes. In other words, pictures for both of the composites were taken at different times, so the shadow is going to be at a different spot in both pictures. Dusty777 17:47, 4 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Support per nom. Clegs (^{engage in rational discourse}) 06:22, 10 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 10:35, 10 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]