Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Bathymetry

Bathymetry

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Original – Animation reveals oceanic floors and seabeds. Continental shelves appear mostly by a depth of 140 meters, mid-ocean ridges by 3000 meters, abyssal plains from 3000 to 6000 meters, and oceanic trenches at depths beyond 6000 meters.

Reason

Informative animation by NASA reveals the ocean floors and seabeds as the water level drops. Water depth is displayed as a parameter. To see the animation in full resolution you may need to change its display setting to "source".

Articles in which this image appears

Bathymetry

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Sciences/Geology

Creator

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Horace Mitchell and James O'Donoghue

• Support as nominator – Bammesk (talk) 14:31, 7 July 2024 (UTC)
• Support – Hamid Hassani (talk) 03:33, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
• Support – _ZZ^Z'S 11:01, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
• Support — Moonreach (talk) 14:07, 9 July 2024 (UTC)
• Support. MER-C 18:28, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

Promoted File:Draining the Oceans video by NASA.webm --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 20:32, 17 July 2024 (UTC)