Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Aral Sea

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Original – Comparison of Aral Sea between 1989 and 2008

Alt animation

Alt2 animation

Reason: good quality, striking visuals. Alt animations don't seem to be so striking.
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Space/Looking back
Articles in which this image appears: Aral Sea, Environmental resource management Uzbekistan

Creator: NASA and Zafiroblue05

Support as nominator – Nergaal (talk) 23:20, 16 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support original Even though it's some 29 px short of the required minimum, the changes throughout the years are horrific. Brandmeister^talk 18:13, 17 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support original horrific.Hafspajen (talk) 23:25, 17 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support original --Alchemist-hp (talk) 06:34, 18 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I take it there's no alternative for the 1989 image that doesn't have the horizontal line (presumably a sattelite stitch)? If so, Support. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 20:25, 19 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Since 1989 is pre-Internet, I doubt that a better alternative may be found even in the dark Internet. Nergaal (talk) 09:10, 20 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

A fair point. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 18:40, 20 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Support original One of the greatest ecological tragedies of our time. --Երևանցի ^talk 04:21, 21 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Aral Sea 1989-2008.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 00:12, 27 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]