Astronaut Scientific Debriefings, 1962-1963

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we are going to see a batch of clouds if it's lighted. (the
earth)
That's really what I saw a lot of.
I was just amazed.
Obviously, when I flew over Africa, it was loud and· clear and
you would see this if you were looking at Africa from some
vantage point many, many miles away.
I suspect that if you
looked at earth from a long distance away that there is so much
cloud cover that it might have an appearance much like Venus in
this sense.
Shoemaker - While we are on Africa, would you like to go on
and talk about the ... (interruption)
Schirra - You can't match my blues.
Maybe Parish· could help ..•
Nordberg - Does anyone have anything on the altitude, particular­
ly on that top that sort of turbulent thing?
Schirra - That's another one you should check into.
Through
the trajectory tables, you should find my altitude.
Now at
this point, I was just passed Indian Ocean ship as I recall.
O'Keefe - We've done all that.
If you say when Mercury went
through that we will tell you what the height was.
(To
Cameron)
You have it?
Cameron - I have it. It's about 280 kilometers ~ Height of
the layers is about 66 kilometers.
I only know the height
of his observation, not knowing the width of it,
O'Keefe - (to Schirra) But you made a mark when you went
through it,
The first "time hack" was when you weTe going
through this turbulent area, right?