Astronaut Scientific Debriefings, 1962-1963

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Shoemaker - --~hy don't we say we'll ~lan on this and then· we can · make
the arrangements --
Schirra - I am afraid that I can't do it rapidly, but I'd say the
first part of April would be okay.
Shoemaker_~ Jocelyn, would you like to take this on to set it· up and
follow it through?
Gill - Certainly o
Schi rra - I would like to nail this one downo
I~ has been· botheri ng
me f or a long time and I just don't seem to be getting any· answers
that I would like to have as well.
Gill - It is possible to have hindsight here.
In other words, we can
recons truct the crime and it is worth doing, I think.
Dunke lrn-an - I am glad you mentioned that you. could see some • stars
dimmed through this patch because-if you don't see -any,-1:he patch
turns out to be extremely bright .
Dunkelman - It's about 300 times higher than what the normal airglow
(seen) edge - on is .
Schirr-a - Well, it wasn't dim by any means.
Dunkelman - It wasn ' t dim - the answer I get _is that it is about
3 ergs/cm2/sec which is extremely bright and its structure is extremely
high .
It is about three hundred times brighter than the normal ai r ­
glow o
I think we can "home - in" on this brightness rather nicely
because, if you saw color, you know it is a dirty brown, but if it
was color, that does require at least SO to 100 times more t han the
normal night airglow.
Schir~a - That's why you were asking me earlier was there a color