What is this triangular shaped thing?

[seemslikeadream]

The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth
from UrbanSurvival

BULLETIN! Holy Crap!
Screen print and save this page immediately because the triangular shaped right smack in the middle of the picture on the NASA Astronaut Photography page sure as hell looks like a TR-3B which (do we believe it?) doesn't exist!

[NeonLX]

Well, would you look at that...the thing is up and out of the atmosphere.

[MacCruiskeen]

If that's real, it must be pretty damn big, too.

Google search results for 'TR-3B'.

Can't be cheap. Here's a Wired article from 2009 that probably greatly underestimates the funds available: Pentagon’s Black Budget Grows to More Than $50 Billion

[barracuda]

It's probably just a... you know, one o' those... just a... um, c'mon, that's just a... It's just a piece o'... debris, or something! That's it - debris!

[Wombaticus Rex]

Metadata:

Identification
Mission: STS61C Roll: 31 Frame: 3 Mission ID on the Film or image: 61-C
Country or Geographic Name: ATLANTIC OCEAN
Features: SPACE DEBRIS
Center Point Latitude: Center Point Longitude: (Negative numbers indicate south for latitude and west for longitude)
Stereo: No (Yes indicates there is an adjacent picture of the same area)
ONC Map ID: JNC Map ID:

Camera
Camera Tilt: High Oblique
Camera Focal Length: 100mm
Camera: HB: Hasselblad
Film: 5017 : Kodak, natural color positive, Ektachrome, X Professional, ASA 64, standard base.

Google Earth KML file: http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/scripts/sseop/P ... TS61C-31-3

Note that me posting this info is not an endoresment of this info. Note that me refusing do endorse this info doesn't mean it's not space debris. Triangular panels are not uncommon.

[Elihu]

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[seemslikeadream]

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[NeonLX]

TR3B, uncloaked:

[freemason9]

TR3B, uncloaked:

That's tragic.

[Fred Astaire]

Don't be so silly. It's the NASA guy's cursor.

[dqueue]

It's probably just a... you know, one o' those... just a... um, c'mon, that's just a... It's just a piece o'... debris, or something! That's it - debris!

It's clearly swamp gas. If you squint, you see it.

[Wombaticus Rex]

If that's real, it must be pretty damn big, too.

Truesay!

[Luther Blissett]

The "what I believed to be" a TR-3B that my partner and I saw a few years ago flying over an industrial part of the city late at night was quite massive - much bigger than a commercial jetliner, perhaps 3x the length.

It's difficult to judge the distance from the viewer in these two photos - it's possible it was relatively close

[DrEvil]

Duh. It's obviously Superman.

[barracuda]

That's tragic.

The top's down on both of 'em.