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Original - Uvs Nuur Üüreg nuur is the largest a lake in Mongolia and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Reason
A very large and clear satellite image of a significant location. Encyclopedic value with striking detail.
Articles this image appears in
Creator
NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and the U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team and Jesse Allen

Please suspend nomination. Wrote this up late at night; now that I'm more alert I realize this wasn't solely NASA but was instead a collaborative venture. Going to double check the public domain status. DurovaCharge! 21:49, 27 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

  • Just delete this image. Its named incorrctly anyways. And close/withdraw this nom. You can nominate the correctly named image when and if the copyright issue is cleared up. --Dschwen 22:51, 27 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Other than the NASA description suggests, this lake Üüreg Nuur is not even within the Uvs Nuur Basin, but in a seperate basin all by itself (although adjacent). Both basins together with several others form the Great Lakes Depression. As already mentioned, the correctly named image is at Image:Uureg Nuur.jpg.
The ASTER program provides Information from http://asterweb.jpl.nasa.gov/. The PRIVACY/COPYRIGHT link at the bottom includes another link to their image use policy'. And there it says that:
Unless otherwise noted, images and video on JPL public web sites (public sites ending with a jpl.nasa.gov address) may be used for any purpose without prior permission, subject to the special cases noted below. Publishers who wish to have authorization may print this page and retain it for their records; JPL does not issue image permissions on an image by image basis.
Since our image can be found at http://asterweb.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery-detail.asp?name=uvsnuur, this rule should apply to it as well.
In short: Delete this copy of the image, use the correctly named one and run with it. --Latebird (talk) 14:35, 30 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted MER-C 04:29, 4 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]