Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Uranus

Uranus[edit]

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**Original** - Uranus is the seventh planet in the solar system and the third-largest and fourth most massive planet in the Solar System.

Reason: High ev as lead image in main article. Its a good picture of the planet considering it is the farthest planet(pluto not planet anymore). This image was taken in 1986 just so people know its a little older
Articles in which this image appears: Uranus, etc... (lots)
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Space/Looking out
Creator: NASA

Support as nominator --Spongie555 (talk) 05:32, 9 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support Wackywace ^{converse | contribs} 07:29, 9 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
~~Meh~~ there is nothing exceptional about this image. It looks like it could almost as easily been a blue sphere made in photoshop by a medium-skilled editor. Yes it is probably the original picture people have seen of Uranus, but this original doesn't really show anything of value. Nergaal (talk) 23:23, 9 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

For comparison, File:Neptune Full.jpg shows many features. Nergaal (talk) 23:31, 9 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Uranus has less surface features than Neptune, that is why this image doesn't have any surface features visible! As I understand it the features on Uranus are visible in the near infrared, you will never see much on a visible light image. - Zephyris _Talk 10:28, 10 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Here is an exert from the article about it, "In 1986, images from Voyager 2 showed Uranus as a virtually featureless planet in visible light without the cloud bands or storms associated with the other giants". Spongie555 (talk) 03:55, 12 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Weak support Nergaal (talk) 18:57, 13 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Support good EV and decent image quality seeing as it is captured by a probe in 1986. Shows exactly what Uranus looks like. Furthermore, this is, as far as I know, the only high resolution picture of Uranus that Wikipedia has. Purpy Pupple (talk) 22:33, 11 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

File:Uranus rings and moons.jpg Nergaal (talk) 00:24, 12 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Support: It is a little "meh" and rather featureless, but I think that planets, like species, deserve to be considered "feature-worthy" no matter how dull, :) This is the best image we have and it's a good size, plus very widely used in article space. Maedin\^talk 11:21, 16 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support per Purpy Pupple and Maedin. --Avenue (talk) 12:48, 16 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support Actually quite exceptional when you think about it. Noodle snacks (talk) 05:25, 17 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Uranus2.jpg Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 11:04, 19 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]