Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Meteor Crater - Arizona.jpg

Aerial View of Meteor Crater

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 29 Aug 2010 at 02:38:05 (UTC)

Reason: I don't usually renominate images if they fail, but I guess I blame myself for suggesting it with too many other choices, so this time it's all about this one since it got the most positive feedback in the last nomination but still fell through. I think this is a very good and high EV image of what might be the best preserved, something like 50,000 years old, meteorite strike on Earth - and over a mile (or kilometre) across, pretty huge, too. I just think that if this doesn't get promoted it at least deserves some outright opposes, if there are any reasons to that is.
Articles in which this image appears: Meteor Crater
FP category for this image: Views of Earth from space and satellites (now called 'Looking back'?)
Creator: NASA, upload by Originalwana

Support as nominator --I'ḏ ♥One 02:38, 20 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Honestly, thanks to an optical illusion effect, it looks more like a hill from this angle to me. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 07:19, 20 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Really? I would think the solar shadow on the eastern(? not sure of directions) portion, the elevated rim and lit western(?) part would make it always look like a depression, maybe the issue is top-down logic. --I'ḏ ♥One 03:21, 21 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Simple solution: turn yourself upside down :-) --Dschwen 12:08, 20 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support, very nice. Strong lead image, good quality. Hopefully this less convoluted nomination will attract more attention. J Milburn (talk) 11:43, 20 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support Hopefully this will "crater" higher level of interest on its own! ;-) gazhiley.co.uk 12:45, 20 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support Nice Hive001 contact 17:36, 20 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support holes in the ground. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 17:56, 20 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Weak, weak oppose. Good quality, but I don't get the same sense of depth or scale after looking at File:Barringer Crater panoramic.jpg. Unless this was on another planet, I wouldn't ask for a side view, but in this case, an aerial view just doesn't do it justice. Spencer^T♦C 18:18, 23 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Just giving the people what they want, you really should've commented on the first nomination. --I'ḏ ♥One 03:29, 29 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support Per above. Cowtowner (talk) 18:43, 23 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Meteor_Crater_-_Arizona.jpg --Makeemlighter (talk) 03:59, 29 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]