Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Australia from space

 
Original - Australia, as seen from space. A cropped version of NASA's Blue Marble. Included in this image at top right are the Torres Strait Islands, below the island of New Guinea. A number of other outlying islands and territories of Australia are outside this image.
Reason
This image illustrates the articles in a way that is attractive and highly encyclopedic. Compares equally in quality to other such Featured Pictures, of which Sahara satellite is the most comparable.
Articles this image appears in
Australia, Geography of Australia
Creator
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Promoted File:Australia satellite plane.jpg --jjron (talk) 12:15, 18 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]