Nacreous_clouds_Antarctica.jpg
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Summary
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English:
Nacreous clouds
over the NASA Radome,
McMurdo Station
, Antarctica. This radome cover a telecommunication antenna used for
space-to-ground communications support to dozens of Expendable Launch Vehicles and polar-orbiting satellites
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| Date | Taken on 23 August 2009, 13:25 |
| Source | Nacreous Clouds over the NASA Radome -4- |
| Author | Alan Light from Charlotte, USA. At Commons: Alan R Light ( talk · contribs ) |
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This is a
retouched picture
, which means that it has been digitally altered from its original version. Modifications:
Removed noise, posterization and chromatic aberrations. Applied gentle sharpening and contrast enhancement. Edits made during the
FPC nomination
period
. Modifications made by
Radomianin
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Assessments
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This image was selected as
picture of the day
on Wikimedia Commons for
14 September 2023
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This image was selected as
picture of the day
on Vietnamese Wikipedia for
23 October 2023
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This image was originally posted to Flickr by Alan R. Light at https://flickr.com/photos/57202181@N05/5273187814 . It was reviewed on 11 July 2023 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-2.0. |