Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Lambert icefall

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[edit] Lambert Glacier Icefall

Reason

I found this amazing satellite image of the an icefall feeding into the Lambert Glacier looking for government free image sources. I was just completely wowed by it and had to upload it immediately and add it to applicable articles. I hope that I may have found something everyone will like.

A description: The Lambert Glacier in Antarctica, is the world's largest glacier. The focal point of this image is an icefall that feeds into the Lambert glacier from the vast ice sheet covering the polar plateau. Ice flows like water, albeit much more slowly. Cracks can be seen in this icefall as it bends and twists on its slow-motion descent 1300 feet (400 meters) to the glacier below."

Articles this image appears in

Icefall, Lambert Glacier

Creator

NASA, Landsat 7

Nominator

A mcmurray

• Support — A mcmurray 07:53, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
• question - is it false colored? It should also be a high quality jpg instead of a png, to save on download times. Debivort 16:54, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Comment:I will invetigate and re upload.A mcmurray 20:23, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

More: Alright. I don't know much about it. This website seems to explain their levels of processing and also implies that the images available from Landsat 7 that are available to the public, which this one is included in the gallery and can be purchased, undergo one of three processing types.A mcmurray 21:53, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

• Oppose I can't make head or tail of what's going on in this image --froth^T 23:10, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
• Oppose. Ack froth, looks almost like schlieren photography to me. --Dschwen(A) 20:56, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

Yes they shined a light on it from space.A mcmurray 23:15, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

What is going on here?! --froth^T 23:20, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

A light from space, what might that have been? --Dschwen(A) 23:24, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

Aliens! This is what is going on here: "The Lambert Glacier in Antarctica, is the world's largest glacier. The focal point of this image is an icefall that feeds into the Lambert glacier from the vast ice sheet covering the polar plateau. Ice flows like water, albeit much more slowly. Cracks can be seen in this icefall as it bends and twists on its slow-motion descent 1300 feet (400 meters) to the glacier below."A mcmurray 23:28, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

Yeah but it's not ice, it's a big blue blur --froth^T 00:02, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

• Oppose I can't understand this picture either and if I don't know what I'm looking at then the pic has no purpose for me. It seems blurred and the colours are peculiar - Adrian Pingstone 09:09, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
• oppose - no explanation of coloration or imaging technique. Debivort 22:54, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
• support - very clear indeed Ernst Stavro Blofeld 17:24, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
• support - very good illustration of an ice fall, in my view a high quality shot. -- Chris 73 | Talk 17:11, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

Not promoted MER-C 11:53, 16 February 2007 (UTC)