Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Africa from space

Original - A photograph of the African continent by NASA, in orthographic projection.

Now with islands and 31.8 megapixels

Reason: Per the same of North and South America. This could perhaps even be be superior to those two.
Articles in which this image appears: Africa, Natural history of Africa, Geography of Africa
FP category for this image: Views of Earth from space and satellites
Creator: NASA

Support as nominator --Sir Richardson (talk) 21:59, 23 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: The South America image is 7200 by 10000 pixels, quite a bit bigger than this. Can we get this in a higher resolution? --Avenue (talk) 03:26, 24 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Made another inquiry with Davepape, who produced the SA image. Jujutacular ^T · C 18:50, 24 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  - There's an existing image at full Blue Marble (first generation) resolution, uploaded a while ago by User:Dbenbenn - File:Africa satellite plane.jpg. It's a rectangular projection, rather than orthographic, but the difference is moderate. --dave pape (talk) 03:58, 25 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Update Replaced with much higher definition version dave pape has linked to above. Sir Richardson (talk) 14:58, 25 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
~~Support~~ Jujutacular ^T · C 17:13, 26 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
~~Weak oppose~~ A wonderful image, but too tightly cropped for my liking. I would prefer to see all of Socotra included, for instance, not half of one island. I felt that seeing more of Europe helped convey the scale, too. The originally nominated picture was better in this respect.--Avenue (talk) 01:01, 27 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I've struck this because the image has changed. My new !vote is below. --Avenue (talk) 10:56, 28 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

~~Weak support~~ per Avenue, although with more of a bias towards the Arabian peninsula and Cape Verde. Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 09:06, 27 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Update I'm renominating the original version, which is what I'm sticking with. It's a better scope, as stated above, and meets all criteria in size. Sir Richardson (talk) 15:40, 27 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
~~Weak support~~. Support for wow and high EV; weak because resolution not as good as South American one and could feasibly be higher. --Avenue (talk) 10:56, 28 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Support "now with islands". Does anyone know which projection this uses?--Avenue (talk) 18:15, 1 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It's just a crop of the blue marble image, so to the best of my understanding, it would be a rectangular projection. Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 23:12, 1 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose original Okay, I think we should re-crop this from the Blue Marble image, making sure we include the islands mentioned above, as well as the Arabian peninsula (I think the latter just looks uncomfortable cropped). Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 17:12, 29 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support "now with islands". Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 21:19, 29 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 03:16, 2 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Very confusing nom. Does not appear to have quorum. Makeemlighter (talk) 03:16, 2 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]