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NASA OOPS!
Edvard:
Ok, the first one looked like a bad crop job, with the one razor-sharp line and the others slightly blurred. The other photo looks a little more mysterious, but the lack of discernable details tells me it's either very far away and quite large, or fairly close and is just a bare piece of triangular material, aka Space junk:
paulobrabo:
By the way, the official description is
Piece of thermal insulation tile floats near the Shuttle Columbia
A small piece of thermal insulation tile floats in space near the Shuttle Columbia. The cloudy surface of the earth is used as a background.
http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/luceneweb/caption.jsp?searchpage=true&to_day=31&from_year=1981&from_month=8&to_year=1996&datesearch=Go&hitsperpage=100&from_day=1&to_month=12&pageno=21&photoId=STS61C-31-002
But since when NASA can be trusted :P
SeraphimLabs:
I could see it being that.
Thermal tiles are black in color, and one that cracked could produce a triangular piece that in zero-G would simply float away slowly enough to be photographed.
Some theories advanced earlier by a community of spacefans is that it was part of the Hubble telescope that had been discarded, but although there was a STS-61 mission with that task it was not marked as STS-61C.
crabby3:
I could see it being that.
Thermal tiles are black in color, and one that cracked could produce a triangular piece that in zero-G would simply float away slowly enough to be photographed.-SeraphimLabs (January 26, 2013, 03:30 PM)
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But how could it get cracked in the first place and then manage to hang-on during all the vibration and flexing of blast-off; only to tear away in zero-G? :tellme:
SeraphimLabs:
I could see it being that.
Thermal tiles are black in color, and one that cracked could produce a triangular piece that in zero-G would simply float away slowly enough to be photographed.-SeraphimLabs (January 26, 2013, 03:30 PM)
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But how could it get cracked in the first place and then manage to hang-on during all the vibration and flexing of blast-off; only to tear away in zero-G? :tellme:
-crabby3 (January 26, 2013, 03:54 PM)
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Micrometeorite impact. All objects in space are exposed to them at someodd long odds that do happen regularly.
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