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View showing a gap in a thermal blanket on the port side of the shuttle, was studied closely by mission control personnel on Saturday after a STS-117 crewmember recorded a series of survey photos with a digital still camera. The gap, about 4 inches, appears to be the result of an unusual fold in the blanket. A video camera on Space Shuttle Atlantis robot arm captured this view after launch during a standard arm checkout and payload bay survey.