Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Rub' al Khali

Rub' al Khali

Original - From NASA: Image of sand dunes in Rub' al Khali, Arabia's "empty quarter". Acquired by the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer, or ASTER, aboard NASA's Terra Earth-orbiting satellite. Brown regions are sand dunes. Gray regions are the underlying gravel plains. Parallel dunes are typically separated by 1 to 1.5 miles.

Reason

Aesthetically pleasing view of a remote region of the planet. High quality, high res, px-level detail.

Articles this image appears in

Rub' al Khali, Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer, Erg (landform)

Creator

NASA, uploaded by Elipongo at commons.

• Support as nominator -- de Bivort 21:42, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
• Support It isn't clear what the lighter coloured areas are though. Please update the caption to inform us. Noodle snacks (talk) 01:37, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
• Comment. Needs scale (or, at a bare minimum, some kind of description in the caption as to how large these features are, or the size of the area covered by the photo). Spikebrennan (talk) 15:49, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
  • Agreed. - Damërung ^{...ÏìíÏ...}_{_Ξ_} . --  16:40, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
• Support Good quality and enc. Spencer^{T♦Nominate!} 14:56, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
• Support. Fascinating at full resolution.--ragesoss (talk) 20:13, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

Promoted File:Rub' al Khali (Arabian Empty Quarter) sand dunes imaged by Terra (EOS AM-1).jpg --wadester16 05:52, 6 July 2009 (UTC)