Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Dasht-e Kavir

Dasht-e Kavir

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Original – Dasht-e Kavir, also known as Kavir-e Namak or the Great Salt Desert is a large desert lying in the middle of the Iranian plateau. It is about 800 kilometers (497 mi) long and 320 kilometers (198 mi) wide with a total surface area of about 77,600 square kilometers (~30,000 mi²), making it the Earth's 23rd largest desert.

Reason: Good quality, resolution. It is already a FP on Commons.
Articles in which this image appears: Dasht-e Kavir
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Space/Looking back
Creator: NASA Earth Observatory

Support as nominator --LlamaAl (talk) 14:05, 15 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Conditional Support The fact that this is a 'false-color composite image made using infrared, green, and red wavelengths' needs to feature much more prominently in the article caption in particular. JJ Harrison (talk) 06:11, 16 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support Volume of EV. Alborzagros (talk) 06:03, 19 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Oppose It looks cool, it has prime placement in the article, but I question the encyclopedic value of a false color image in regards to illustrating the topic as required by the criteria. I realize a plain picture is just yellowish brownish dust but either this image doesn't add much or the caption both here and in the article does a horrible job of telling us what is being shown and why it's important. Cat-five t c ---- 07:29, 19 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Conditional Support if the issue of false colour is adequately addressed. With sufficient effort it seems one can download LANDSAT7 data directly [1][2], which I imagine comes in separate TIFF images for each channel; and presumably the wavelength sensitivity for each channel is known. The technical quality and value of this image is very good otherwise. As a side note, why aren't there any ground level photographs of this place in the article? Purpy Pupple (talk) 00:38, 24 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 14:18, 24 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]