Astronaut Scientific Debriefings, 1962-1963

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Scientific Debriefing
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Soules: You ma.de the remark that you were coming over A:t'rica.
aey more information? There was none in the tra.ns9ript.
~ Cooper:
What base was this oni
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Bill: Wasn't one of them over the coastline?
Cooper:
Yes, I did one right on the .coast of A:t'rica.
I got one coming
~ight over the coastline. Another ·one I got almost over ·the other coast;
:toward Johannesburg; it was· ·an inland picture, almost the northern areao
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Soules: The last four are a ~stery. •
Bill Armstrong: It, looks like you had about a quarter inch motion .on
I'm sure. I didn't. ·
1I ' was ·holding the camera just
Soules
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We might ,check the camera.
, -Soules:
What was the do~t color of the ·earth over Baja California?
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Cooper:
I :found that the green showed up very little. The only really
•djstinct green that 'I saw which showed up much was in the high Tibetan area.
It. was a \right emerald green, by·some o:f those lakes. It looked like a
,copper sulphate mining area.
The browns ·of the. .Arabian Desert Sand show,ed :
up quite distinct. •Th~. Sahara was :not quite so brown although i~ .did' have
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