Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Atmospheric opacity

Atmospheric opacity

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Original – Opacity of the Earth's atmosphere for different wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation. The atmosphere blocks some wavelengths but it is mostly transparent for visible light and a wide range of radio waves.

Reason

A valuable and easy to comprehend depiction of an atmospheric property with applications in astronomy and radio/satellite communication. The image is widely used in many of our articles.

Articles in which this image appears

Astronomical spectroscopy, Radio astronomy, Radio telescope, Radio window, Optical window, Visible-light astronomy, Electromagnetic radiation, Electromagnetic spectrum, + 9 more

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured_pictures/Sciences/Others

Creator

NASA (original), SVG by Mysid

• Support as nominator – Bammesk (talk) 01:45, 27 April 2022 (UTC)
• Support It feels on the simple side, but I can certainly see its value. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 7.7% of all FPs} 16:46, 27 April 2022 (UTC)q

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 04:28, 7 May 2022 (UTC)

• Nomination didn’t reach the necessary quorum for promotion. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 04:28, 7 May 2022 (UTC)