Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Galilean moons of Jupiter

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 2 May 2012 at 10:01:34 (UTC)

Reason: Very high detail image, well presented, gives a straight-forward representation of the moon's sizes, colourful and in a artistic layout with Jupiter's red spot shown in detail.
Articles in which this image appears: Galilean moons, Patronage in astronomy, Jupiter's moons in fiction, Jupiter in the fiction of Leigh Brackett, 1610
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Space/Astronomy
Creator: NASA/JPL/DLR

Support as nominator --Robo37 (talk) 10:01, 23 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose due to size concerns (for space, 1500px is nothing) and blurriness on Jupiter. Crisco 1492 (talk) 13:28, 23 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Weak oppose – can't comment on technical aspects, but the educational value does not appear to be well-substantiated. It's actually really hard to compare sizes with this arrangement. Are they just randomly arranged? Is there another purpose? Also this arrangement doesn't lend itself to easy recognition of which is which, it has to be explained. Grandiose (me, talk, contribs) 18:52, 24 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment, NASA is said to have arranged the image so I don't much about it's history, but they seem to be arrange in order of orbital distance, with the closest to Jupiter pictured at the top and the furthest at the bottom. Personally I think adding details to the picture itself, albeit in lables or subheading, would ruin the beauty of the image. The distinct look of the moons gives encyclopedic by itself, as you can quickly identify IO with having a volcanic nature and sulfuric atmosphere, Europa's having thick icy surface and Ganymede as smooth and rocky without having to read much into the details.

Not Promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 21:34, 2 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]