Commons:Featured picture candidates/Image:Cyclone Catarina from the ISS on March 26 2004.JPG

Info - Created by NASA and uploaded and nominated by tomf688 (talk - email).
Support. This is a photograph taken from the ISS of the only known hurricane of the South Atlantic, unofficially dubbed Cyclone Catarina. Due to high wind shear, tropical cyclones are exceedingly rare in this region of our planet, not to mention ones of hurricane-force. Besides being an attractive image, this is an excellent example of the structure of a cyclone, and documents an event which may not occur again for a very long time. tomf688 (talk - email) 03:31, 12 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Luc Viatour 06:36, 12 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Comment the fact this is a South Atlantic hurricane is not really visible from the picture (or am I missing something?). It looks just like any other ISS hurricane picture. --Dschwen 18:58, 12 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- The clouds are spinning clockwise (they spin counterclockwise in northern latitudes) and the coast of Brazil is faintly visible in the NW corner of the image. --tomf688 (talk - email) 20:38, 12 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

- Comment that could easily be changed on any other storm pic just by a horizontal flip :-). Not enough of the coastline visible to identify it easily as Brazil, either. - MPF 18:30, 13 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Support Both nice and encyclopedically valuable. 3000x2000 resolution is also very good. --Leclerc 02:22, 14 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support-LadyofHats 22:55, 20 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support Jon Harald Søby 21:01, 23 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

5 support, 0 oppose → featured Roger McLassus 05:43, 27 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]