Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Meteorite in Miller Range blue-ice area

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Reason

This photo shows a blue-ice area with the characteristic, wind-scoured blue ice ... except for the meteorite, a common find in such blue-ice areas, and its lee where normal snow has accumulated. It's a large image that seems to be of good quality.

Articles in which this image appears

Blue-ice area

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Sciences/Others

Creator

NASA, image credit: Nina Lanza

• Support as nominator – Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 09:11, 16 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Jo-Jo Eumerus, the "creator" field is for image authors/creators/photographers and such, not uploaders. I fixed it. Bammesk (talk) 01:39, 18 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Support – Hamid Hassani (talk) 11:33, 16 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Support A slight oddity in the look, but ice photographs oddly. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.7% of all FPs.} 23:22, 16 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Support – Bammesk (talk) 04:46, 17 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Support – Ras67 (talk) 14:40, 17 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose Random image to illustrate this article. Charlesjsharp (talk) 21:14, 17 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  Uh - what is random about it? There are blue-ice areas in the Miller Range Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 09:35, 18 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  It illustrates a meteorite nicely, but doesn't add specific EV to enhance the knowledge of the blue-ice phenomenon itself. It would add lots of EV to the Meteorite article, but it's not there. Charlesjsharp (talk) 18:16, 18 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  On the meteorite article all it would add is a black rock in ice. Volcanic bombs and erratic blocks can sometimes also look like this...when they are in wind-scoured ice, that is. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 08:09, 19 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  • The article extensively discusses the phenomenon of meteorites accumulating in blue-ice areas. I don't see why it should be considered out of place. --Paul_012 (talk) 18:51, 20 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment: The Flickr image description lists Nina Lanza in the image credit rather than Cindy Evans. Ras67, could you check? --Paul_012 (talk) 23:23, 20 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I took the liberty of changing the image credit per the source link. Hope that's Ok. Bammesk (talk) 01:03, 22 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You know, did Nina Lanza work for NASA when she made the photo? Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 15:45, 22 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Nina Lanza's CV [1] says she was working for the Los Alamos National Laboratory, a government agency. The nom image is published by NASA though. The flickr source [2] says the CC license is "non-commercial". I don't think Commons considers "non-commercial" claims to be valid in case of photos published by U.S. government agencies. Bammesk (talk) 03:18, 23 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment Oppose – With lighting behind the subject, it's a black blob in the snow. – Sca (talk) 15:09, 21 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  The meteorite isn't the subject, though. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 15:45, 22 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Support – Yann (talk) 16:18, 22 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Support Otherworldly. --Argenberg (talk) 17:55, 22 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Support – Giles Laurent (talk) 08:55, 25 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Miller Range, Antarctica - Meteorite (2).jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 19:48, 27 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Added image to Places/Landscapes instead. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 19:48, 27 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]