1 November 2010. A sends: STS-107 was Columbia, which disintegrated on reentry on 1 FEB 2003...hence the dates on the photos from 2003.

29 October 2010. A sends: "The images are Scanning Electron Microscope images and appear to be of biological samples such as you indicated, that is, human or organic fragments."

28 October 2010

Challenger Disaster Microscopic Forensic Photos

These NASA 2003 microscopic photos show forensic examination of ground-level debris from the STS107 Challenger Columbia Space
Shuttle disaster in 1986 2003. The piece shown is not identified. Could they be human or organic fragments?
Information welcome: cryptome[at]cryptome.org

Box added by Cryptome to indicate location of second photo enlargement. Original High-resolution (TIFF, 1.2MB)
Original High-resolution (TIFF, 1.2MB)
Magnification entitled "CellRun" of an unidentified object. Original High-resolution (TIFF, 2.1MB)