This actually hit snopes (the urban-legend debunking site):

    http://www.snopes.com/photos/shuttle.asp

At one point there was a higher resolution picture/video of the same
scene that made it VERY clear that this wasn't a wing with cracks, but
links to it seem to have gone bad...

BillW

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