Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Mercury

Mercury

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Original – Mercury is the innermost planet in the Solar System. It is also the smallest, and its orbit is the most eccentric (that is, the least perfectly circular) of the eight planets. It orbits the Sun once in about 88 Earth days, completing three rotations about its axis for every two orbits. The planet is named after the Roman god Mercury, the messenger to the gods.

ALT 1

Reason

Picture has a huge EV, is verifiable, and looks good.

Articles in which this image appears

Mercury (planet)

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured Pictures#Space

Creator

NASA

• Support as nominator --LlamaAl (talk) 20:13, 1 February 2013 (UTC)
• oppose there are painful stitching issues slightly left of center just below the top of the image. MESSENGER has at least a month less to run so probably worth waiting to see if imagery is captured that can fix that.©Geni 16:44, 4 February 2013 (UTC)
• Oppose as per Geni. The stitch isn't visible in low-res, but can be identified clearly in larger sizes. Rishabh Tatiraju (talk) 16:23, 7 February 2013 (UTC)
• Comment: There's a current FP of a gibbous Mercury, though it seems to show a rather different view. (There has been some confusion as to which version was featured). --Paul_012 (talk) 16:39, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 20:13, 10 February 2013 (UTC)