Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Tvashtarvideo

Tvashtar erupts

The Tvashtar volcano erupts a plume 330 km above the Jovian moon Io. This series of five images was captured by the New Horizons probe in March 2007.

Reason: What she said: [1]
Articles this image appears in: Io (moon), Volcano, Tvashtar Paterae, New Horizons
Creator: NASA / JHUAPL / SwRI

Support as nominator — Spikebrennan 17:57, 16 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Strong Support - It could be blurry and maybe out of focus, yet that animation brings much more educational and encyclopedic value than many other "sharp" pictures. It looks to me that Wikipedia POD should be more concern about bringing up unique and educational pictures instead of maybe beautiful but very common ones. After all Wikipedia is not a photo contest. It is Encyclopedia. Mbz1 | Talk
Support per above - yay geologically active bodies other than earth! The ejecta get so far out there too... Debivort 05:00, 17 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Strong Support possibly the only image of its kind Jellocube27 06:00, 17 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
support per nom Cryptophile 11:23, 17 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
~~Comment~~ Support. I would love to support this, but the image description page currently lacks a caption. The blurb here probably isn't public domain, as it's on a Johns Hopkins University website, otherwise I'd paste that in. -- Avenue 12:30, 17 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

added blurb. Serendipodous 14:00, 17 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks; I now support it. I'd also like to see a strip (per Pengo below), but I think the current version is good enough to be featured as is. -- Avenue 22:39, 17 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Is it possible to have these 5 images laid out as a strip too, so they can be studied more closely? Animation is good but it's nice to have an alternative (and non-moving) way to view the images too. —Pengo 14:21, 17 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support - The caption should mention that the ejecta gets up to 350km in altitude (the space shuttle would have to dodge it)! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by TotoBaggins (talk • contribs) 15:56, 17 May 2007 (UTC).[reply]

I've added the height to the caption here (it's already on the image description page). -- Avenue 09:31, 18 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Support Of all GIF animations I've seen, this one is the most "spaced-out"... ;-) --Janke | Talk 17:09, 17 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support Very interesting and unique. — BRIAN0918 • 2007-05-17 18:17Z
Comment While I recognize the uniqueness of the animation, I also feel that it has very poor quality, even given the circumstances. I imagine this was compressed to make it work as an animation? If the uncompressed, larger files could be uploaded as a strip, per Pengo, I might support.--Here T oHelp 20:38, 17 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Support, I so want to support this on encyclopaedic grounds, but the poor quality may be just too much. It's hard to discern what's exactly going on without the blurb. Centy 22:02, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
Support Even if its 500 million miles away.Bewareofdog 23:58, 17 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support Per Mbz1 --St.daniel ^Talk 23:35, 18 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted Image:Tvashtarvideo.gif MER-C 11:59, 30 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]