Astronaut Scientific Debriefings, 1962-1963

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Scientific Debri efing
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( Cooper continued) ·a brown look,
Everything predominantly had a. bluish
cast .
.All. the :wat er, all the sea water, looked very very bright blue.
Even the Salton Sea looked very blue. And areas -we ,know 'were heavy toreat •
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areas looked kind of blue-green. The areas that a.re definitely brown you can
tell they a.re brown~
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Soules:
I have a. question on the thunderstorms.
Could you hear ·sta.tic'l
Cooper:
I could hear. it day or night and on both HF and UHF..
It was. almost.
instantaneous.
As I woul~-- see the lightning and the clouds light up, I : 1 • ..
would get the static.
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• ·: Soules:
What i s the frequency band on HF'l
Cooper:
HF i s 15 megacycles.
The. static was louder in:the HF the.µ ·in tbe
r
UHF.
You could just hear ·it, it wasnlt high magnit ude.
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Soules:
Was there a difference in loudness between day and night'l
Cooper:
I think night side w.as considerably louder.
Of course I noted
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thUDdersto~
were louder ,on 'night side.
There were large _masses of
thunderstorms out to the east of Australia.
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SoV,les:
Did the flash come tram below the (?a.psule or • could you look off
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