Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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it was magazine 4, exposure 10, expo:rnre 11 .
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was Lake DePoopo in South America and here again
the l ake was fairl y distinctive although this was
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a shallow water lake - the other lake was i n the
mountains in a fairl y deep water - crater-type lake,
whereas this Lake DePoopo was a flat land lake fair ly
shallow, the lake was not the same shape as on the
map that we had of it.
In fact, the map we have is
quite a poor map and the isl and that the point i s on,
Isl a de Panza, is not the same shape as the island
that is shown. It is the onl y i slanc it can be,
i t is not exactly, quite different in reality than
it is here on the thing.
The island is changed in
shape, but being a shallow water l ake you can see
that the lake could very r eadily change with the
water level - - change shape with the water level ;
and these islands could very readily be modified
fairly readily just by dredging or hacking away at
them. It was obviously the only lake in that im­
mediate area that i t could be and it had the same
general shape as this lake.
And it had the river
leading in. The lake was f airly distinctive, and
fairly easy to find, the point was easy enough to
get onto , and I got these two pictures of it.
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