[Budge]

Here you go.

[Budge]

It looks like something is happening on the leading edge of the left wing. It follows a straight line to the anomaly on the trailing edge.

[John Jamieson]

Thats it. 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.

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

[John Jamieson]

I expect that this is an infarred picture of temperature. Aluminum will surely melt and probably burn at the 2500 to 3000 degree temps.

The sensor wire bundle goes right in front and down the side of the wheel well. Things are starting to fit together.

[XBob]

This image is a view of the underside of Columbia during its entry from mission STS-107 on Feb. 1, 2003, as it passed by the Starfire Optical Range, Directed Energy Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Kirtland Air Force Base, N. M. The image was taken at approximately 7:57 a.m. CST (1357 GMT).