Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/delist/Lunar Roving Vehicle

Lunar Roving Vehicle

Original - Astronaut Eugene A. Cernan, commander, makes a short checkout of the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) during the early part of the first Apollo 17 Extravehicular Activity (EVA-1) at the Taurus-Littrow landing site. This view of the "stripped down" LRV is prior to loading up. Equipment later loaded onto the LRV included the ground-controlled television assembly, the lunar communications relay unit, hi-gain antenna, low-gain antenna, aft tool pallet, lunar tools and scientific gear.

Newest edit

Reason

Cleaned up the original photo, removed some scratch like articfacts, crosses, improved colour, reduced blown white. In my opinion, the new version is superior in quality and would like to delist and replace the original.

Previous nomination/s

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/NASA Apollo 17 Lunar Roving Vehicle

Nominator

Seddσn ^talk

• Delist and Replace — Seddσn ^talk 02:48, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
• Comment Better, but there are still a bunch of scratches near the wheel to our right and its shadow. You missed at least one crosshair there, too.--HereToHelp ^{(talk to me)} 12:43, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

I have removed 3 additional crosshairs. Seddσn ^talk 20:01, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

Delist and replace I still encourage you to try to get more scratches out, but it's clearly superior to the original.--HereToHelp ^{(talk to me)} 03:23, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

• Comment How do we feel really about the reticles/fiducials/crosshairs. I actually think they add enc value to the image, being in every image that was shot using the lunar cameras which all had Reseau plate fitted. I kind of get a bad feeling about them being removed, it seems a step further than merely restoration.. Mfield (talk) 05:52, 27 November 2008 (UTC)
• D & R Per reasons given in nom. Cat-five - talk 01:30, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

• Strong Keep until I hear a good reason for removal of the reticles per my comment above. Mfield (talk) 17:24, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
• Keep Whatever you do, do not remove the reticle crosses! They are an integral part of all the space-Hasselblad shots! --Janke | Talk 19:03, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
• Keep the crosshairs are an important part of the pictures. Lorax (talk) 03:44, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

Kept MER-C 08:34, 4 December 2008 (UTC)