Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Saturn from Cassini Orbiter (2004-10-06).jpg

Saturn

Reason: stunning, hi res, and enc.
Proposed caption: This grand mosaic consists of 126 images acquired in a tile-like fashion, covering Saturn's rings from one end of to the other and the entire planet in between. The images were taken over the course of two hours on Oct. 6, 2004, while Cassini was approximately 6.3 million kilometers (3.9 million miles) from Saturn. Since the view seen by Cassini during this time changed very little, no re-projection or alteration of any of the images was necessary. For more on the creation of the image, see Nasa's summary.
Articles this image appears in: Saturn
Creator: NASA

Support as nominator Malachirality (talk) 19:44, 12 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Spikebrennan (talk) 19:47, 12 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support - amazing at full rez. I wonder if that's chromatic aberation on the right or if the atmosphere is that purple. de Bivort 21:12, 12 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This may be the source of the aberration:

"Three images (red, green and blue) were taken of each of 42 locations, or "footprints," across the planet. The full color footprints were put together to produce a mosaic [...]" --Malachirality (talk) 04:30, 13 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Just like the old Technicolor movies - which sometimes do show color fringing, too... --Janke | Talk 09:14, 13 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Support - Wow! 126 images?!? Cacophony (talk) 23:24, 12 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support- The epitome of what the FP should be. --Shark face 217 05:18, 13 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - Does it seem unusual, weird, atypical or at the very least interesting that the name of this space probe is 'Cassini Huygens' and the software which is available to stitch panoramas together is called Hugin? -- carol 07:10, 13 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support - goes without saying. --Janke | Talk 09:13, 13 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support- It's Saturn. SeanMD80^{talk | contribs} 23:17, 13 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support It's a gorgeous shot. One thing I'd like is if we could possible identify the (two?) visible moons in the picture. That may not be possible (considering it's a mosaic, I suppose they could conceivably even be the same moon), but it would make the picture more encyclopedic to identify all the relevant parts. Matt Deres (talk) 01:53, 14 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- They're Mimas and Janus. --jjron (talk) 05:22, 14 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support It rocks, especially at full rez. However, I am curious what those blobs are in front of Mars near where the rings go behind again on the right. Are those moons? Vixwald (talk) 05:05, 14 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Qué? Mars? --jjron (talk) 05:25, 14 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. I edited the proposed caption a bit. Chick Bowen 06:18, 14 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support, perfect (well apart from the fringing, which is not avoidable). --Aqwis (talk – contributions) 10:01, 14 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support, absolutely gorgeous. --Golbez (talk) 21:29, 14 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nom--Mbz1 (talk) 05:02, 15 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support: Fine work. —αἰτίας •discussion• 15:23, 15 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nom-- þħɥʂıɕıʄʈ^ʝɘɖı 05:01, 16 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted Image:Saturn from Cassini Orbiter (2004-10-06).jpg MER-C 02:56, 19 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]