Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Cryobot

Cryobot

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Original – A cryobot developed by NASA. This prototype is of an instrument used to drill through ice at depths of up to 3600 meters. Being waist-high this cryobot can penetrate ice at a rate of 1 meter per hour. Cryobots may be used in the future to explore extraterrestrial environments such as the icy waters of Jupiter's moon Europa.

Reason

This is an interesting subject depicted, it's of high quality and it is in the public domain

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Cryobot

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Engineering and technology/Others

Creator

NASA

• Support as nominator --Turn685 (talk) 06:57, 24 November 2011 (UTC)
• Oppose Image doesn't tell us squat. Looking at this photo, I have no idea how this thing works, what it does, who uses it, where it's used, or how big it is. Aaadddaaammm (talk) 17:04, 25 November 2011 (UTC)
• Though I wouldn't have put it so bluntly, I agree with Adam above that this oblique, shallow-focus presentation of an unfamiliar object isn't ideal. Chick Bowen 20:57, 26 November 2011 (UTC)
• Oppose. I have to agree with Adam here. Sorry. J Milburn (talk) 16:30, 27 November 2011 (UTC)
• Oppose per above. My first thought was that it was a .45 cartridge in dry ice. Clegs (talk) 09:38, 29 November 2011 (UTC)

Not Promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 14:11, 3 December 2011 (UTC)