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To: abner
impressed with the photo

If it's heavily into the infrared, it would show hot things as bright, or in this reversed spectrum image, as black. If something is hot enough, its image will burn [bad choice of words, probably] over into neighboring pixels. So the hot wing looks more distorted and jagged than it really was. Heat would weaken the metal until it got hot enough to melt and flow like water. That would be the end of the structure.

80 posted on 02/07/2003 5:13:36 PM PST by RightWhale
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To: RightWhale
So what we would be seeing in this picture is not so much the shape of the shuttle itself, but the shape of the plasma "cloud" around it and trailing behind??
82 posted on 02/07/2003 5:16:07 PM PST by Ramius
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