Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Endeavour silhouette

Endeavour silhouette

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Original – Space Shuttle Endeavour appears to straddle the stratosphere and mesosphere, as seen from the International Space Station.

Reason

Striking photo of a space shuttle straddling the stratosphere and mesosphere

Articles in which this image appears

Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Troposphere, Atmosphere of Earth, Space Shuttle Endeavour, STS-130

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Space/Getting there

Creator

NASA/Crew of Expedition 22

• Support as nominator --Pine^✉ 20:15, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
• Support Don't see any major technical defects. EV is good. Dusty777 01:59, 22 September 2012 (UTC)
• Support Tomer T (talk) 15:26, 22 September 2012 (UTC)
• Support Mediran ^talk 02:07, 23 September 2012 (UTC)
• Weak Support Although that's got much EV, I don't see enough quality in that. Alborzagros (talk) 13:31, 23 September 2012 (UTC)
• Support And add to my collection of rotating wallpapers on my desktop - Beautiful image, and can never be taken again... gazhiley 10:11, 24 September 2012 (UTC)
• Comment. For the sake of clarity and scientific accuracy, care should be taken in captions to avoid the impression that the Shuttle is actually located at the boundary of the stratosphere and mesosphere when the picture was taken, rather than simply being between the camera and the boundary when the photo was taken. (Endeavour would have been about 200 km above the stratosphere-mesosphere boundary, at approximately the same altitude as the ISS.) TenOfAllTrades(talk) 14:00, 26 September 2012 (UTC)

That is a very good point. --Wingtipvorte^X PTT ∅ 19:51, 26 September 2012 (UTC)

I have adjusted the caption. Pine^✉ 21:55, 26 September 2012 (UTC)

• Support image has tremendous EV. Two technical drawbacks that I notice are the bit of noise and the fact that the shuttle is blurred at full res. Now, this being a shot that will never be able to be taken again, that the noise is not that big of a problem, and that they are going thousands of miles an hour (a little motion blur is expected), I say it is good enough. --Wingtipvorte^X PTT ∅ 19:51, 26 September 2012 (UTC)

Promoted File:Endeavour silhouette STS-130.jpg --King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 22:23, 2 October 2012 (UTC)