Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Sakurajima

Sakurajima

Original - Space radar image of Sakurajima stratovolcano, located in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. Among the most active volcanoes in the world, Sakurajima last erupted in March 2009. Formerly an island, an eruption connected the mass to the Japanese mainland. It is a Decade Volcano. The colors of the image can be attributed to different frequencies and polarizations of the radar as follows: "red is L-band vertically transmitted, vertically received; green is the average of L-band vertically transmitted, vertically received and C-band vertically transmitted, vertically received; blue is C-band vertically transmitted, vertically received."

Reason

Striking, high resolution picture, also very encyclopedic subject.

Articles this image appears in

Sakurajima, Aira Caldera

Creator

Space Shuttle Endeavour's Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)

• Support as nominator --Ceranllama chat post 21:13, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
• Support: Well, it isn't excellent, and I considered abstaining or opposing. But then I read more about this volcano's recent activity and that scientists consider it a potential threat to the population, one of only 15 volcanoes identified as such. So, I decided that the EV here tips the balance for me. Maedin\^talk 11:37, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

Not promoted MER-C 11:52, 28 April 2009 (UTC)