Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/PAGEOS

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 25 Sep 2023 at 02:10:21 (UTC)

Original – Test inflation of PAGEOS, a balloon satellite.

Reason: Good composition, revealing the sheer size of the subject compared to human scale.
Articles in which this image appears: PAGEOS, Balloon satellite, List of passive satellites
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Engineering and technology/Others
Creator: NASA

Support as nominator – fgnievinski (talk) 02:10, 15 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose The reflections (probably intentional) ruin EV. Charlesjsharp (talk) 08:22, 15 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment: a passive satellite relies on reflection, both radio waves and light... the only way for it to be detected. How else could you illustrate a silver sphere? --Janke | Talk 18:28, 15 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  - Support --Janke | Talk 08:27, 23 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Per Charlesjsharp. – Hamid Hassani (talk) 20:58, 15 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support – good EV, nice and sharp for 1965. I am fine with the reflections, and per Janke. Bammesk (talk) 14:15, 16 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support: opposing because of its reflection is like opposing a mirror FPC because of reflection. Good quality. Gerald WL 07:41, 21 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support. High EV. Choliamb (talk) 11:34, 21 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose – Per Charles. Confusing, jumbled comp. Not readily apparent what subject is. – Sca (talk) 12:58, 21 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support on irreplacability grounds. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.5% of all FPs.} 17:54, 21 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support — Chris Woodrich (talk) 14:45, 23 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:PAGEOS Satellite - GPN-2000-001896.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 10:42, 25 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]