[capitan_refugio]

Ping to John Jamieson.

I think the maneuver mentioned in this article is similar to one of the questions I posed to you on an earlier thread. Also, I haven't looked to see if it is posted yet, but apparently the Air Force in New Mexico got some high res pictures of Columbia about 1 minute prior to break up. The picture purportedly show significant damage to the left wing.

[The Mayor]

you mean this one?

[OldFriend]

Saw the picture but it isn't clear enough for a naked eye determination. No doubt NASA will be able to get it into better shape.

[John Jamieson]

The left wing is trailing flame to me. The front edge has to be burning, but the Astronauts couldn't see it. The wing has to be still in basically the right shape for there to have been few aerodynamic effects at this point.

The image looks like an infarred one and should really be inverted to a white image. Then we can false color it to show temp. Can anyone do that?

We don't have a good time for this image!?