Astronaut Scientific Debriefings, 1962-1963

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ground as to structure.
Could you infer anything about it?
Schirra - Amazingly enough I felt I saw every bit of what I see
here.
The terrain changes, the rivers - one of the best shots ­
this is of course, South America, that's the one I'd like to use
in fact = when I came across South America, here we are, on the
sixth orbit, in this area it was all clouded, and I finally broke
into the clear - in this sense - just before I got to Rio de Janeiro ,
and I could see, I think it was the Corono River, I am not sure.
This is about where it started clear again.
I could trace that
river out very easily.
Just follow it all the way through there .
Roman - To the ocean?
Schirra - No, I could not do that.
I thought I could, but at t hi s
point, it's sort of a local sunrise, so you don't have good vertical
lighting on it at this point.
Now in Africa, I had vertical
lighting almost.
This was almost its local noon when I crossed i t .
I would like to have seen this large lake right here almost in the
center of the mass of Africa , and I don't recall seeing it.
0 9 Keefe - Chad, Chad .
Schirra - Yes, I think this is probably when I was conversing with
Conno and we had quite a bit of discourse about the suit circuit .
O'Keefe - Chad is a very tricky lake anyway.
Lots of the reeds in
it, and it is very shallow; I think sometimes it just isn't there,
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Schirra - I think you just simply get a light reflection off it
possib ly .
It looked so pronounced here that I wanted to see this
as a check point and had it in mind, and I've forgotten ...
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