Close up of object from 20002441.jpg

These photos are from NASA of "Unknown objects" This set of photos was taken from STS 34 shuttle mission and not much information is available on them. I thought they were quite interesting though and am curious as to why NASA would put them on the web site. To view these you can go to http://nix.nasa.gov/ and do a search for "Unknown"...These photos will show up at the end of page 11 and continue to page 12 in a series of 20002439.jpg to 20002444.jpg. It appears that the tube shaped object through the series is disappearing or turning on end.

Here is the info from the NASA site on the first pic.(the rest have about the same information)

NASA PHOTO ID: STS034-79-028 PHOTO FILE NAME: 20002439.jpg

PHOTO CHRONOLOGY: PHOTO TARGET:
Date Taken: Region:
Time Taken: 19:24:20 Features: UNKNOWN OBJECT
Spacecraft Orbit: 18 Latitude: 28.8 S
Longitude: 55.2 E
PHOTO CHARACTERISTICS:
Exposure: SPACECRAFT DATA:
Cloud Cover: Latitude of spacecraft
Camera tilt: nadir position: 28.8 S
Focal Length: Longitude of Spacecraft
Azimuth: 195 nadir position: 55.2 E
Elevation: 166 Altitude:
Stereo image Direction from spacecraft
available: nadir position to
photo center point:

20002439.jpg

20002440.jpg

20002441.jpg

20002442.jpg

20002443.jpg

20002444.jpg