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[edit] Antarctica satellite globe

Well, shiver me timbers. Antarctica is a cold, cold place.
Well, shiver me timbers. Antarctica is a cold, cold place.
A higher-resolution replacement, suggested by Night Gyr.
A higher-resolution replacement, suggested by Night Gyr.
"Full size" image, generated by Dave Pape
"Full size" image, generated by Dave Pape

The resolution of this image is far too low to be a featured picture. It was promoted back in 2004 when the FP requirements were less strict.

  • Delist Strong Replace with Davepape's version. - ♠ SG →Talk 19:22, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
  • Weak Keepnewer version is much better.. All I can say is wow. Davepape's version is so much better. NauticaShades(talk) 20:04, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
  • Replace with Image:Antarctica satellite orthographic.jpg, it's higher res but essentially the same image and meets the requirements. Night Gyr (talk/Oy) 20:38, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
  • Replace per Night Gyr. Davepape.--Andrew c 21:22, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
  • Abstaining, as I have another option to throw at you. Neither of the two images really makes full use of the Blue Marble data, which prompted me to make a new one that does. Image:Antarctica 6400px from Blue Marble.jpg is a 6400x6400 orthographic projection of Antarctica; at this size, it's more or less the full 1 km resolution of the satellite data (since orthographic isn't an equal area projection, one can't say that exactly). (FWIW, as far as I can tell Blue Marble Next Generation didn't improve on the resolution of Antarctica, so I stuck with the older data.) --Davepape 08:02, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
  • Question. Why is a part of the ocean coloured black in the upper right corner of the continent? It doesn't look like missing data to me as the coastline appears intact. --KFP (talk | contribs) 09:02, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
    • It's in the source image. It looks to me like there was some missing or incorrect data in the land/sea mask that they used to fill the ocean in with a flat blue. I have touched it up manually in response to your & Janke's comments. --Davepape 14:29, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
    • BTW, since I've done a moderate amount of work on this now, if there's any concern about it being a back-door route to FP, I'd be fine with making the new image a separate nom so more people see it and respond. --Davepape 14:34, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
  • Replace wit full-res image, but fix black ocean part first. --Janke | Talk 10:28, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

Kept, but replaced with full-size version. howcheng {chat} 00:10, 17 October 2006 (UTC)