Commons:Valued image candidates/Pale Blue Dot unaltered.jpg

Pale Blue Dot unaltered.jpg

declined

Image
Nominated by	Surajt88 (talk) on 2011-07-29 07:44 (UTC)
Scope	Nominated as the most valued image on Commons within the scope: Earth, as seen from from inter-stellar space.
Used in	Global usage
Reason	This image was selected as picture of the day on the English Wikipedia for April 22, 2010 and I am of the opinion that it shoud be a valued picture in commons.  Info Pale Blue Dot is the name given to this 1990 photo of Earth taken from Voyager 1 when its vantage point reached the edge of the Solar System, a distance of roughly 3.7 billion miles (6 billion kilometres). Earth can be seen as a blueish-white speck approximately halfway down the brown band to the right (annotation added). The light band over Earth is an artifact of sunlight scattering in the camera's lens, resulting from the small angle between Earth and the Sun. Carl Sagan came up with the idea of turning the spacecraft around to take a composite image of the Solar System. Six years later, he reflected, "All of human history has happened on that tiny pixel, which is our only home." Surajt88 (talk) 07:44, 29 July 2011 (UTC) -- Surajt88 (talk)
Review (criteria)	Support The scope seems to me appropriate. --Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 09:02, 29 July 2011 (UTC)  Oppose There might be a suitable scope for this image, but this one certainly isn't. There are much better (and recognizable) images of earth from space. W.S. 11:10, 2 August 2011 (UTC) I you say is true. Do you think adding "by Voyager 1" would be a good idea. --Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 09:43, 3 August 2011 (UTC) What about the following subscopes: Earth, as seen from geospace: probably File:The Earth seen from Apollo 17.jpg Earth, as seen from the moon: probably File:NASA-Apollo8-Dec24-Earthrise.jpg Earth, as seen from interplanetary space: probably File:Earth and Moon .jpg Earth, as seen from Mars: probably File:The Earth and the Moon photographed from Mars orbit.jpg Earth, as seen from interstellar space: this one Best wishes, --Quartl (talk) 08:13, 4 August 2011 (UTC) Interesting and possibly workable perspective. W.S. 08:35, 4 August 2011 (UTC) How about a VI set out of these? --Quartl (talk) 12:58, 4 August 2011 (UTC) I'd support that. พ.s. 19:08, 6 August 2011 (UTC) Set nomination: Commons:Valued image candidates/Earth from space. --Quartl (talk) 19:55, 6 August 2011 (UTC) Scope changed from Earth, picture of Earth taken from space to Earth, as seen from from inter-stellar space {{{3}}} Please notify previous voters of this change. Remember: "A support vote that was made before a change of scope is not counted unless it is reconfirmed afterwards; an oppose vote is counted unless it is changed or withdrawn".  Support I support, with this new scope --Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 13:56, 4 August 2011 (UTC)  Oppose I'd rather support the set. --Quartl (talk) 19:55, 6 August 2011 (UTC)  Comment I support the set. --Walter Siegmund (talk) 21:21, 6 August 2011 (UTC)  Comment I support the set. --Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 12:52, 7 August 2011 (UTC) Result: 0 support, 2 oppose => declined. George Chernilevsky talk 14:39, 9 August 2011 (UTC)