Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/PIA08384

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[edit] Iapetian trailing hemisphere

Original
Original
Reason
Resolution, value and unanimous support at COM:FPC.
Proposed caption
False-color mosaic shows the entire hemisphere of Iapetus (1,468 kilometers, or 912 miles across) visible from Cassini on the outbound leg of its encounter with the two-toned moon in Sept. 2007. The central longitude of the trailing hemisphere is 24 degrees to the left of the mosaic's center. It is hypothesised that the moon's two-toned nature is due to the sublimation of various ices evaporated from the other hemisphere, which faces the sun.
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Iapetus (moon)
Creator
NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
  • Support as nominator MER-C 13:34, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
  • Support. Recommend that caption mention that Iapetus is a moon of Saturn. Spikebrennan 14:53, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
  • Support. Looks very good. Chris H 20:47, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
  • Support. Beautiful picture! Inklein 03:43, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
  • Support. Sharp separation of light and dark features at all scales of observation = positive feedback = badass! de Bivort 04:38, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
  • Support Can't argue detail like that. NyyDave 16:34, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
  • Support - another great picture from space.--Svetovid 11:06, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
  • Support Awesome picture, the detail is just stunning. --snowolfD4 ( talk / @ ) 22:31, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
  • Support Per above - excellent detail! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Thelb4 (talk • contribs) 13:18, 20 October 2007 (UTC)


Promoted Image:PIA08384.JPG --Jeff Dahl (Talk • contribs) 04:53, 21 October 2007 (UTC)