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Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes.Voting period ends on 12 Feb 2012 at 06:54:06 (UTC)
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Info created by NASA/NOAA - uploaded and nominated by Techman224 -- Techman224Talk 06:54, 3 February 2012 (UTC)
Support -- Techman224Talk 06:54, 3 February 2012 (UTC)
Oppose too prominent artifacts in the image. The earth hasn't these bright stripes in reality. --LC-de (talk) 08:19, 3 February 2012 (UTC)- Info As for those four vertical lines: That’s the reflection of sunlight off the ocean, or “glint,” that VIIRS captured as it orbited the globe.
- Yes, I know. And there are four stripes, because this image is a composition of several pictures taken by the satellite at various places, normally there would be only one area. So it's artificial and not even useful to explain the "glint". Btw. explaining the flaw doesn't improve the image. --LC-de (talk) 11:24, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
- Support - I like the atypical angle. The description of the lines being sunlight reflection makes sense to me. Royalbroil 22:14, 3 February 2012 (UTC)
- Oppose, not the real photo, no stars.Sasha Krotov (talk) 05:26, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
- No star doesn't mean it's not real lol. You know with our technology today, we can easily take out the background if we want to.Trongphu (talk) 22:29, 5 February 2012 (UTC)
- Oppose Very impressive techinique in stiching. Although sun reflection from four visible passes of the satellite over the Planet makes the picture looking odd and unnatural. The fact that it's a stich is not a problem for me, but parts of pictures with sun reflection in the oceans should be avoided (I don't know it that was possible though). Also I'm not very sure if everything went fully correct while calculating the resulting image. When looking at the famous blue marble picture form Apollo (which didn't required stiching as it was taken far enough from the Earth) we can see that there is a big part of Antarctica visible. I suppose the purpose of the author was to create a picture of Earth as seen form a similar point as the one Apollo 17 was in 1972. In 2012 picture we can see only some coast on Antarctica, while in Apollo's quite a large part, including South Pole. In other words South Pole should be visible in a picure taken from very high above a point on the Earth south of the equator and it doesn't seem to be here (at least far enough from the horizon). --sfu (talk) 11:56, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
- Support I like the techniques. It doesn't look like a normal Earth doesn't mean it is not beauty. After all it is still our home, the best place in the world so far.Trongphu (talk) 22:29, 5 February 2012 (UTC)
- Support -- I agree, home-sweet-home. TrebleSeven (talk) 11:12, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
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