Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Rime

Rime (frost)

Under some atmospheric conditions, forming and descending snow crystals may encounter and pass through atmospheric supercooled cloud droplets. Contact between the snow crystal and the supercooled droplets results in freezing of the liquid droplets onto the surface of the crystals. This process of crystal growth is know as accretion. Crystals that exhibit frozen droplets on their surfaces are referred to as rimed. When this process continues so that the shape of the original snow crystal is no longer identifiable, the resulting crystal is referred to as graupel.

A striking high detail image of rime (frost) on both ends of a column-shaped snow crystal. Again, the 24 MB source file is linked on the image description page, if anyone wants to improve the sharpness/lighting/contrast.

Nominate and support. - BRIAN0918 22:38, 23 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Comment – It's interesting, but I can't really tell what I'm looking at. Morganfitzp
- The giant column-shaped structure with hexagonal end-caps is a snowflake. Here's another photo of a "capped column" snowflake. The bumpy stuff on either end is the rime. — BRIAN0918 • 2006-07-24 01:14
Neutral (bordering Support). High image quality in magnification and an amazing image, but I remain unsure if it is suited for creditable FP status. -- AJ24 16:24, 24 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- What does that mean?? What is wrong with the image? High quality, amazing, and illustrates rime (frost) perfectly. — BRIAN0918 • 2006-07-24 16:44
- Its my opinion Brian. I do not oppose the image whatsoever, I voted neutrality. -- AJ24 01:19, 25 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support - has the wow factor. Renata 17:46, 24 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose see my hail comment. --Dschwen 17:59, 24 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- That doesn't make any sense. It's a microscopic phenomenon, so to say that we shouldn't allow featured pictures of it because it's just toooo small is ridiculous. You can clearly see the snowflake, and you can clearly see the rime on either end of the snowflake. Where's the problem? — BRIAN0918 • 2006-07-24 23:41
Support - amazing!! Looks like a manmade architectural column. Especially good with the integrated scale, although it could stand out more - Jack (talk) 21:28, 24 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Great picture. Meets most FP requirements with flying colors. Except, I think the caption could be more concise. -Seidenstud 04:09, 25 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support Agree with Jack --Fir0002 09:26, 26 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Beautiful. --jjron 09:42, 28 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support I like it. -- Chris 73 | Talk 14:05, 28 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support Visually appealing and informative - everything a featured picture should be. --Mr. Lefty _{Talk to me!} 02:33, 31 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted Image:Snowflake 300um LTSEM, 13368.jpg Raven4x4x 09:48, 1 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]