I have to wonder what the quality of any pics the AF took was? Why were they taking pics and what in particular where they photgraphing? Do they take pics of all space shuttle flights? If so, who requires them or requested them to? Can the public see these pics?
For some reason, I wouldn't think the AF would take low quality pics, what would the purpose of that be ?
These are questions I'd like someone to ask the folks at NASA.
I would also like to know what efforts are being made out west to identify and retrieve debris.
It seems anything found out west would shed greater light on what failed first.
By the time it got in my neck of the woods it had already exploded and was in pieces.
The problem as explained was the two dimentional view. A damaged tile that was 5 inches thick would look the same as one that had only a quarter inch remaining.