Gemini 4 Experiment Debriefing, 1967

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spectacular than sunsets.
I will try to explain that in a moment if I can.
Uh,
going to go back a moment t o what Cooper J uh, what Schirra
uh, saw during a twilight right after sunset.
He observed) uh, the planet
Mars and he observed at twilight, the sun had just set, a very specta.­
cular array of colas, he describes them very carefully in the report,
in the blue.: book, his 1iJ.ue book, and sumrna.rys blue book too.
Uh, he
d.escr-ibcd a ro.th r :Lnt
est:lng blue hand that ' "' three blue bands;
you r-an
o.11 0chi c a. ' s hlues.
Uh, . .
.
and he's able
is true
to
d.o qu • t
w 11, \./ ith bl1t ~s .
He observe
a da k blue, light blue, and a
dark blu
/\nd t le worc.l "light" i1-i
1:1. d ··_ fi ult word.
When one says
lj gh L on
d.o sn ' l: know whether on
m nns the
lue was a lighter hue or
'j_t W:l:; brig! It J: •
nut1 j t J it 1:ipp '1:1.
~ to be 1:1. iigr1t blue J and. one has
to use these wo tls
or what t hey stand.
Anyway, we uh, from what these
obse vations v re is (reportedly) on to a tape and is
. (debriefing)
and afterwards we are all very consistent.
We had an order to try to
construct this thing.
The first time a ound it needed a little correction
wr1en lkhirra saw 1.t; th
s cond t me around he was somewhat, he was
quit
plca"ell w:i. Llt H .
We di<ln ' t quit - know wl at this thing (band)
was u. t; f irst· ,.,, 'r s Lill not too sure .
Uh, we think it might be
I ook:i 111-~
.
[; j rn le.::;:.; tube 1>c'c:tuse th
. tomorrow is
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J\ r· t.:Lmi.ll1-; :Ls Carpenter Jiad stn.rted.
Uh . we
l,h lrik 11(1:;ci 1,.1.Y-
,m • :I.~-; l111,·c·rvj nt,~ Lil • O:lonisphcrc edge on.
The ozonisphere
, ,. appr·ox·im11.L ·ly
ul1 ,
011 ,
L'r •om 10 t
l'.> kilometers hitsh up to rO, some-
t.!1inr, .L:ik
that .
It (H.·ems to huv
u 11lll.Ximum around 2:> or 20 kil omete s .
1rh,
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ozone 1i8 you know, is very ve y absorbing in the ultraviolet,