| Description | The shuttle broke up in the atmosphere during reentry, these pictures are in space.
During reentry, there is a ball of ionization around the shuttle and the leading edges of the wings are very hot. There is no ionization in these pictures.
It is over the night side of the earth but the reentry occurred in the daytime.
It was traveling at 12,000 mph in the atmosphere. That kind of a breeze would significantly streamline the debris field which you don't see in the pictures.
Attached are pictures of the Shuttle Explosion from an Israeli Satellite in
space. They are from the Department of Justice in Washington D.C.
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