Astronaut Scientific Debriefings, 1962-1963

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the smoke?
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Cooper:
an airplane.
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pictures?
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Could you determine wind direction and velocity by SillOke?
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I could tell direction - over the Tibet·area the wind 1was from the south.
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Did you see industrial smoke?
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I remember one fairly large area there was considerable haze and factory
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You did not see the motion of the clouds?
No I could not determine the motion ~f the clouds. Oh, you mean velocity
by the way the smoke was moving.
I mean the clouds were moving .
Your first question was could he tellwind velocity and direction from
I don't know whether I could judge velocity or not.
I could tell the wind
ving fairly strongly, because the smoke appeared to c9me out of the smoke
stacks flatly, it didn't drift up. But looking at the clouds, I could not tell
which direction the wind was blowing.
Did you have difficulty in seeing Cirrus clouds?
Another question.
We may have some trouble distinguishing snow from clouds
regions. You had no difficulty in distinguishing snow from clouds?
No.
I thought the snow was very very distinct. It is just like flying
Sometimes when the snow is very smooth and even, it is difficult
to tellclouds from snow.
You can determine the cloud height if you have a good
perspective of the cloud height. You can tell vhether the clouds are low or medium
or very high clouds.
You never took two pictures of the same a~ea?
That is, two overlapping
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Yes, I think I ~id over the Himalayas.
I have two pictures of almost
same area of .the Tibetan High Lake area.
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