Here's an article with more info on the Starfire images. It sounds pretty grim.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Florida (CNN) -- Photographs taken by an Air Force tracking camera shortly before the space shuttle Columbia disintegrated show serious structural damage to the shuttle's left wing, an aviation magazine reported Friday.



The images, captured about a minute before the shuttle broke apart, show a jagged edge on the left wing structure near where the wing begins to intersect with the fuselage, according to a report in Aviation Week & Space Technology. Columbia's right wing and fuselage appear normal in the photos, the magazine said.

The damage to the left wing indicates either a small structural breach, such as a crack, or that a small piece of the wing's leading edge fell off, according to the magazine. It said NASA investigators at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, are analyzing the pictures.



I don't think any of the photos have been released yet. I suppose they will be released eventually, but I don't know for sure because StarFire is a military instrument and the images might be classified.