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File:An Astronaut's Snapshot of the Moon.jpg, featured[edit]

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Apollo 17 astronauts Dr. H. Jack Schmitt and Gene Cernan took this image of the Moon's Taurus-Littrow valley. The view shows the lunar roving vehicle near the rim of Shorty crater. In the distance are the mountain-like massifs that define the Taurus-Littrow valley. This region marks the last time - December 1972 - that humans walked and drove on the Moon's surface.
  • Pictogram voting info.svg Info created by NASA - uploaded by LuisArmandoRasteletti - nominated by LuisArmandoRasteletti -- LuisArmandoRasteletti (talk) 00:29, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
  • Symbol support vote.svg Support -- LuisArmandoRasteletti (talk) 00:29, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
  • Symbol support vote.svg Support Beautiful picture... but did you really take it? :) Laurent (talk) 00:39, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
  • Symbol strong support vote.svg Strong support It's not really fair that we have so many landscape pictures from Earth and almost none from other celestial bodies. --The High Fin Sperm Whale 02:48, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
    • I'd be happy(probably few others around here as well) to go get some pictures but we would need some funding assistance from the foundation to cover travel costs :) Gnangarra 08:18, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
  • Symbol support vote.svg Support something totally different from the usual NASA collection of FP's Gnangarra 08:18, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
  • Symbol support vote.svg Support-Henswick (talk) 09:29, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
  • Symbol strong support vote.svg Strong support -- Really awesome. :) Von.grzanka (talk) 12:54, 16 June 2010 (UTC)

Symbol support vote.svg Support ( Support),

It looks like the photo is made of three photos pieced together, and this white line could be the intersection of two of the photos. Laurent (talk) 23:28, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
  • Stitching artefact. You can see it continue downslope as a blur in the land. - MPF (talk) 23:30, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
Can anybody fix it? Rastrojo (D•ES) 01:06, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
  • Symbol support vote.svg Support - Truly amazing content, and surprisingly good quality for a 1972 shot. Small stitching issues and crosshairs are mitigated by... well, the obvious. –Juliancolton | Talk 00:03, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
  • Symbol support vote.svg Support Amazing! Jacopo Werther (talk) 09:20, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
  • Symbol support vote.svg Support -- Takabeg (talk) 09:49, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
  • Symbol support vote.svg Support -- George Chernilevsky talk 10:00, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
  • Pictogram voting info.svg Info How many degrees wide is that photo? More than 180°? On the right side of the picture the shadows point to a different direction than on the left side of the picture. ---donald- (talk) 10:03, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
    • Indeed. I would estimate 200-250°. Jujutacular T · C 13:47, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
  • Symbol oppose vote.svg Oppose --Very impressive view and quality but unfortunatelly too many stitching problems and CA. Sting (talk) 17:23, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
  • Can we really fault CA on the moon in the early 70s?? –Juliancolton | Talk 19:04, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
  • And it's not like we are going back there any time soon to take a better shot. Laurent (talk) 19:07, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
I'm just pointing out that the fringes could have been desaturated in order to avoid those unatural purple areas as it's a very easy post-processing operation. For the stitching, unfortunatelly... Sting (talk) 22:25, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
  • Symbol support vote.svg Support Iconic and for all practical purposes impossible to reshoot. — raeky (talk | edits) 15:00, 18 June 2010 (UTC)
  • Symbol support vote.svg Support --Brackenheim (talk) 16:55, 18 June 2010 (UTC)
  • Symbol support vote.svg Support --Lošmi (talk) 18:03, 18 June 2010 (UTC)
  • Symbol support vote.svg Support Steven Walling 19:47, 18 June 2010 (UTC)
  • Symbol support vote.svg Support--MZaplotnik (my contribs) 19:20, 19 June 2010 (UTC)
  • Symbol oppose vote.svg Oppose - would like to support, but the number and badness of the stitching errors is just a bit too much. Would it be possible to get the individual section pics and re-stitch with more modern software? - MPF (talk) 17:36, 20 June 2010 (UTC)
This site seems to have the full set of Apollo 17 images but unfortunately they resized them all to a low resolution :( They have some highres panoramas as well but not the one we're interested in. nasa.org and nasaimage.org don't seem to have the full set of pictures either. Laurent (talk) 20:19, 20 June 2010 (UTC)
  • Symbol oppose vote.svg Oppose The other moon panorama looks better. --99of9 (talk) 02:25, 21 June 2010 (UTC)
  • Symbol oppose vote.svg Oppose per others. If it passes, it should be delisted in favor of the other one. --ianaré (talk) 10:21, 21 June 2010 (UTC)
Confirmed results:
Result: 20 support, 5 oppose, 1 neutral → featured. /George Chernilevsky talk 07:31, 25 June 2010 (UTC)
This image will be added to the FP gallery: Space exploration
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