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- Gallery: Commons:Featured pictures/Places/Satellite images#South America
- Info Doce River delta at the Atlantic Ocean. The Doce River (Rio Doce in Portuguese, literally the "sweet river") is a river in southeast Brazil with a length of 853 kilometres (530 mi). The river basin is economically important. In 2015, the collapse of a dam released highly contaminated water from mining into the river, causing an ecological disaster. Created by NASA - uploaded by HVL - nominated by ★ -- ★ 21:49, 19 November 2023 (UTC)
- Support -- ★ 21:49, 19 November 2023 (UTC)
- Question We have an existing FP of a satellite picture of this disaster, don't we? -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 13:59, 20 November 2023 (UTC)
- No, this one was taken in 2000; the dam collapse occurred in 2015. It is the natural color of the river's water (I live in the neighboring city, Colatina, also crossed by the river, and I can confirm that the color has always been this earthy-brownish tone before the disaster). ★ 14:27, 20 November 2023 (UTC)
- Sorry for not reading carefully. This is a good, valuable photo, and I might support it, but it's a little smaller than and seems not as sharp as many of the satellite photos taken more recently that we've been featuring, so I'll think about it. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 14:33, 20 November 2023 (UTC)
- I think this one is a good satellite image, considering the year (2000). ★ 14:48, 20 November 2023 (UTC)
- Sure, but how much should we consider the year in this category? -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 16:11, 20 November 2023 (UTC)
- You can compare with Category:2000 satellite pictures, for example. ★ 16:33, 20 November 2023 (UTC)
- Right, and thanks, but my question is how much to compare the quality and resolution with more recent photos. I'll come back to this. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 21:28, 20 November 2023 (UTC)
- Sure, but how much should we consider the year in this category? -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 16:11, 20 November 2023 (UTC)
- Sorry for not reading carefully. This is a good, valuable photo, and I might support it, but it's a little smaller than and seems not as sharp as many of the satellite photos taken more recently that we've been featuring, so I'll think about it. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 14:33, 20 November 2023 (UTC)
- Support --HVL talk 17:01, 20 November 2023 (UTC)
- Support --MZaplotnik(talk) 20:23, 20 November 2023 (UTC)
- Support.--Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 07:38, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
- Oppose May be usable but as a satellite photo it is not especially visually pleasing or otherwise unique. —kallerna (talk) 07:37, 22 November 2023 (UTC)
- Info This is a duplicate of the much better-documented File:ISS001-E-5420 - View of Brazil.jpg. Apparently is not a satellite image, but was taken by some member of the ISS crew? Might want to correct that and adjust the categories, or maybe just merge the two files. --El Grafo (talk) 13:40, 22 November 2023 (UTC)
- Oppose As far as images taken from space go, this is really not all that impressive. Many rivers release sediments like this, and the image doesn't even really do a great job at depicting that, as most of the river is covered by clouds. Had this actually been a rare picture of the 2015 dam break, that would have been a different story, but I really don't see this among the best of the best. --El Grafo (talk) 13:40, 22 November 2023 (UTC)
- I withdraw my nomination El Grafo has the point. ★ 13:52, 22 November 2023 (UTC)