Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Island of Cyprus

Island of Cyprus

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Original – Island of Cyprus seen from the Sentinel-2A satellite (ESA)

Reason

High resolution and quality.

Articles in which this image appears

Geography of Cyprus, others

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Space/Looking back

Creator

ESA/Sentinel-2A

• Support as nominator – TheFreeWorld (talk) 09:11, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
• Looking at the water area, at full size, the top half has a cooler tone (it's more blue)! Bammesk (talk) 02:12, 17 June 2021 (UTC)

• You're right -- there's an abrupt cutoff between the two shades of blue. What's going on there, and can it be repaired? jp×g 02:09, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
  • Satellite images are often stitched from several exposures, evidently that's the case here. --Janke | Talk 08:14, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 12:32, 25 June 2021 (UTC)