Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Titan globe

Titan

Original - A mosaic of nine processed images acquired during Cassini's first very close flyby of Saturn's moon Titan on Oct. 26, 2004. The images comprising this mosaic were acquired from distances ranging from 650,000 kilometers (400,000 miles) to 300,000 kilometers (200,000 miles).

Reason

It has superior resolution (2,575 × 2,575 pixels) and very useful to illustrate different areas of the moon Titan.

Articles this image appears in

Titan (moon), Cassini–Huygens, Shangri-la (Titan), Xanadu (Titan)

Creator

NASA

• Support as nominator --OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 01:24, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
• Support de Bivort 23:17, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
• Support. Probably the best black and white image of the moon available, at a good resolution. Mostlyharmless (talk) 04:30, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
• Comment Why is this image not featured in Titan (moon)? smooth0⁷0₇ (talk) 15:29, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

Makes sense. I added it to the Cassini-Huygens section; it seems better than the image at the top of the page, but I'll defer to the people working on that article. Fletcher (talk) 22:35, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

• Support, and a question: Do Cassini's cameras not have color capability, or is the moon just this grey? Spencer^T♦C 22:44, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
  • Not sure. But a lot of "colours" are actually artist's concepts or false colour. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 04:09, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
    • Yeah they do. See page 84 of this article, which describes the on-board cameras in detail. MER-C 08:40, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
      • I think the issue is that Titan has an opaque atmosphere (see Image:Titan_in_natural_color_Cassini.jpg). This image of the surface was presumably created at a wavelength capable of penetrating the atmosphere, and it's probably not technically possible to do so in true color. -- Coneslayer (talk) 14:44, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
• Oppose Quality is moderate, no wow.Greener Cactus (talk) 20:07, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

User has only 45 edits, and seems like a SPA. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 21:07, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

• Support, per Mostlyharmless. Based on a google image search this is one of the best overview images of Titan. Fletcher (talk) 22:40, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

Promoted Image:Titan globe.jpg MER-C 03:36, 12 July 2008 (UTC)