KNHawnominated this image on
Picture Peer review and I'm seconding it. I just copied and pasted the excellent caption KNHaw put on the image page. It is fantastically beautiful, and is packs a huge amount of information about the composition of the moon's surface. KNHaw anti-aliased it after nominating at at WP:PPR. It's still got visible color-balance signs of the stitching job by NASA (see the upper tip of the moon for an obvious example), but I figure it shows the process of creating the image, NASA did it so it would be hard for anyone here to fix it, and if anyone is going to fix it it would be once they saw it here, not at
picture peer review.
Proposed caption
This
false-colormosaic was constructed from a series of 53 images taken through three
spectral filters by
Galileo's imaging system as the spacecraft flew over the northern regions of the
Moon on December 7,
1992. The part of the Moon visible from
Earth is on the left side in this view. The color mosaic shows
compositional variations in parts of the Moon's northern hemisphere. Bright pinkish areas are highlands materials, such as those surrounding the oval lava-filled Crisium
impact basin toward the bottom of the picture. Blue to orange shades indicate
volcanic lava flows. To the left of Crisium, the dark blue Mare Tranquillitatis is richer in
titanium than the green and orange maria above it. Thin mineral-rich soils associated with relatively recent impacts are represented by light blue colors; the youngest craters have prominent blue rays extending from them. The
monochrome band on the right edge shows the
unretouched surface of the moon. The Galileo project, whose primary mission is the exploration of the
Jupiter system in 1995-97, is managed for
NASA's Office of Space Science and Applications by the
Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Support as nominatorEnuja(talk) 00:53, 19 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Support lots of good info - pretty trippy too.
deBivort 21:08, 19 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Support per nom--
Mbz1 23:57, 19 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Support per nom. Amazing picture.
NyyDave 02:29, 20 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Comment I just wanted to clarify a point Enuja made in the nomination and give credit where credit is due. Specifically, the caption was written by NASA, not me (see
here). I only added a single sentence and the wikilinks. I have added the NASA catalog page link to the image page so people can see the original caption, etc. --
KNHaw(talk) 06:01, 20 October 2007 (UTC)reply
KNHawnominated this image on
Picture Peer review and I'm seconding it. I just copied and pasted the excellent caption KNHaw put on the image page. It is fantastically beautiful, and is packs a huge amount of information about the composition of the moon's surface. KNHaw anti-aliased it after nominating at at WP:PPR. It's still got visible color-balance signs of the stitching job by NASA (see the upper tip of the moon for an obvious example), but I figure it shows the process of creating the image, NASA did it so it would be hard for anyone here to fix it, and if anyone is going to fix it it would be once they saw it here, not at
picture peer review.
Proposed caption
This
false-colormosaic was constructed from a series of 53 images taken through three
spectral filters by
Galileo's imaging system as the spacecraft flew over the northern regions of the
Moon on December 7,
1992. The part of the Moon visible from
Earth is on the left side in this view. The color mosaic shows
compositional variations in parts of the Moon's northern hemisphere. Bright pinkish areas are highlands materials, such as those surrounding the oval lava-filled Crisium
impact basin toward the bottom of the picture. Blue to orange shades indicate
volcanic lava flows. To the left of Crisium, the dark blue Mare Tranquillitatis is richer in
titanium than the green and orange maria above it. Thin mineral-rich soils associated with relatively recent impacts are represented by light blue colors; the youngest craters have prominent blue rays extending from them. The
monochrome band on the right edge shows the
unretouched surface of the moon. The Galileo project, whose primary mission is the exploration of the
Jupiter system in 1995-97, is managed for
NASA's Office of Space Science and Applications by the
Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Support as nominatorEnuja(talk) 00:53, 19 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Support lots of good info - pretty trippy too.
deBivort 21:08, 19 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Support per nom--
Mbz1 23:57, 19 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Support per nom. Amazing picture.
NyyDave 02:29, 20 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Comment I just wanted to clarify a point Enuja made in the nomination and give credit where credit is due. Specifically, the caption was written by NASA, not me (see
here). I only added a single sentence and the wikilinks. I have added the NASA catalog page link to the image page so people can see the original caption, etc. --
KNHaw(talk) 06:01, 20 October 2007 (UTC)reply