Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter
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![](/media/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/PIA02040_Martian_hemispheres_by_MOLA.jpg/260px-PIA02040_Martian_hemispheres_by_MOLA.jpg)
Original – Topographic map of Mars as measured by Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter, showing the two hemispheres of Mars.
![](/media/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Mars_topography_%28MOLA_dataset%29_with_poles_HiRes.jpg/220px-Mars_topography_%28MOLA_dataset%29_with_poles_HiRes.jpg)
Much better resolution, a legend that indicates what the colors mean, topographic unity instead of two separate globes, a coordinate system that allows the viewer to get accurate positions for different features
Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 16 Apr 2020 at 02:51:50 (UTC)
![](/media/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/PIA02040_Martian_hemispheres_by_MOLA.jpg/260px-PIA02040_Martian_hemispheres_by_MOLA.jpg)
- Reason
- Lead image. Topography of Mars. This was on the cover of Science magazine in 1999. Measured by Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter.
- Articles in which this image appears
- Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter
- FP category for this image
- Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Space/Understanding
- Creator
- NASA
- Support as nominator – Bammesk (talk) 02:51, 6 April 2020 (UTC)
- Prefer and support alt, it has a lot more detail. Bammesk (talk) 00:34, 7 April 2020 (UTC)
- Comment Given my interests I'm not one to oppose this outright, but I think there are higher quality flat maps on the internet which are huge (as in, 12k by 6k pixels). – John M Wolfson (talk • contribs) 04:27, 6 April 2020 (UTC)
- Here's an example. (Warning, this is about 18 MB large). – John M Wolfson (talk • contribs) 04:33, 6 April 2020 (UTC)
![](/media/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Mars_topography_%28MOLA_dataset%29_with_poles_HiRes.jpg/220px-Mars_topography_%28MOLA_dataset%29_with_poles_HiRes.jpg)
- Oppose - There are far superior MOLA images on Wikipedia. I put one up as a comparison. -- Veggies (talk) 16:31, 6 April 2020 (UTC)
- Support Veggies's version, assuming it's not already an FP. – John M Wolfson (talk • contribs) 17:48, 6 April 2020 (UTC)
- Support alt. MER-C 18:18, 6 April 2020 (UTC)
- Support alt. --Janke | Talk 20:22, 6 April 2020 (UTC)
- Support alt. «“I'm Aya Syameimaru!”I„文々。新聞“I„
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Promoted File:Mars topography (MOLA dataset) with poles HiRes.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 06:55, 16 April 2020 (UTC)