Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Aral Sea

Aral Sea in 1989 and 2008

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 26 Jun 2014 at 23:20:10 (UTC)

Original – Comparison of Aral Sea between 1989 and 2008

Alt animation

Alt2 animation

Reason

good quality, striking visuals. Alt animations don't seem to be so striking.

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Space/Looking back

Articles in which this image appears

Aral Sea, Environmental resource management Uzbekistan

Creator

NASA and Zafiroblue05

• Support as nominator – Nergaal (talk) 23:20, 16 June 2014 (UTC)
• Support original Even though it's some 29 px short of the required minimum, the changes throughout the years are horrific. Brandmeister^talk 18:13, 17 June 2014 (UTC)
• Support original horrific.Hafspajen (talk) 23:25, 17 June 2014 (UTC)
• Support original --Alchemist-hp (talk) 06:34, 18 June 2014 (UTC)
• Comment I take it there's no alternative for the 1989 image that doesn't have the horizontal line (presumably a sattelite stitch)? If so, Support. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 20:25, 19 June 2014 (UTC)

Since 1989 is pre-Internet, I doubt that a better alternative may be found even in the dark Internet. Nergaal (talk) 09:10, 20 June 2014 (UTC)

A fair point. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 18:40, 20 June 2014 (UTC)

• Support original One of the greatest ecological tragedies of our time. --Երևանցի ^talk 04:21, 21 June 2014 (UTC)

Promoted File:Aral Sea 1989-2008.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 00:12, 27 June 2014 (UTC)