The Cellar - View Single Post - 2/3/2003: Weather radar sees Columbia debris

Undertoad · 02-03-2003, 01:07 PM

More information. Apparently the shuttle began its actual breakup well before the first frame here caught anything - in fact, it was further west than Dallas. But it was travelling so fast that the debris didn't reach the point where weather rader would catch it until it got this far.

So the left-most point of red in this image is NOT the place where the accident began; it actually began far to the left, off the frame in fact.

02-03-2003, 01:07 PM	#2
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	More information. Apparently the shuttle began its actual breakup well before the first frame here caught anything - in fact, it was further west than Dallas. But it was travelling so fast that the debris didn't reach the point where weather rader would catch it until it got this far. So the left-most point of red in this image is NOT the place where the accident began; it actually began far to the left, off the frame in fact.