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• It could have been struck by a micrometeor or it could have been struck by some debris.
• Because they want to make sure that while they're in space they want to make sure they didn't get dinged by a micrometeor.
• Signals-and detection was getting a lot of routine stuff Van Allen count, micrometeor count, surface temperature, gravitationfield strength, radar and scanner echoes.
• On the ground, NASA engineers poring over images of that chipped heat shield and some tiles, and the leading edge of the left wing seen there, which was hit ever so slightly...