Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Phobos

Phobos

Original Phobos,taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter from a distance of 6,800 kilometers (about 4,200 miles)

Edit 1 by Fir0002 - quick edit which removed most of the red dots

Edit 2 by diego_pmc — further removal of most obvious effects of the red dots (mainly the brighter crater).

Reason

After my previous FPC nomination,Rhea,I found this striking image of Phobos.It will probably be the most detailed image available of Phobos until Phobos-Grunt arrives. Meets all featured picture criteria.

Articles this image appears in

Phobos (moon)

Creator

NASA,uploaded by Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason

• Support as nominator --Fireaxe888 (talk) 17:11, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
• Support as uploader (but obviously not author). This is on of the best pictures of a moon in the entire solar system. --Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 18:08, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
• Question What's all that red noise most visible to the left? Can it be removed?--HereToHelp ^{(talk to me)} 18:15, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
• Comment Unfortunately,I'm not quite sure what it is.Perhaps someone with more experience should take a look?--Fireaxe888 (talk) 18:52, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
• Conditional Full support if the red dots can be edited out without changing the moon's surface too much. (I guess it might be some data transmission noise.) --Janke | Talk 19:51, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
  • • Comment Perhaps the moon has measles... Lemon martini (talk) 11:38, 13 November 2008 (UTC)
• Comment - Why this extreme crop? Shouldn't be too difficult to add some more black space -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 21:06, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
• Support - One of the better pictures of the Martian moon. Red "dots" are a result of the process of taking a picture of an object thousands of miles away from Earth, and they are only apparent when viewed at higest resolution. As you can see here [1], even NASA didn't get rid of the dots, and they could if they felt it necessary. --AutoGyro (talk) 16:16, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
• Support edit 2, but I'd prefer if the red dots were removed. It doesn't look like something extremely hard to do. Diego_pmc ^Talk 20:09, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
• Support Edit 1 Impressive detail and colour is a plus --Fir0002 05:08, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

Well done! support above is now full... (PS: Be sure to mention the retouching on the image page...) --Janke | Talk 20:43, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

• Request Fir0002, could you also fix the red dots on that big crater? They pass right through it, and it's the only place where they're still quite that visible. Diego_pmc ^Talk 20:59, 13 November 2008 (UTC)
• Support Edit 1 or whichever is deemed the best, if more are made. Great job, Fir!--HereToHelp ^{(talk to me)} 00:28, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
• Strong Support edit 1 (Fir). Now the red noise is gone, it's a magnificent image of an important object. —Vanderdecken∴ ∫ξφ 09:54, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
• Added edit 2 - I removed the line caused by the red dots on the bright crater (see image). Diego_pmc ^Talk 11:08, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

Crater detail edit 1 left, edit 2 right

Promoted Image:Phobos colour 2008.jpg MER-C 23:58, 19 November 2008 (UTC)