Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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polarization. I just can' t find any linear defini­
tion of it. When the sun is setting you can get
s ome linear polarity in a vertical plane, but other­
wise I just can't see anything different one way
than the other.
I took the filter out and rotated
it a number of times.
I took the whole filter out.
We saw a Zodiacal light.
We saw-­
Conrad
Yes, we really did a couple of times--just could
see it where night vision was right .
We had t he
lights out in cockpit and everything.
Boy, you
coul d really-,:­
Cooper
Pete spotted an interesting phenomenon that he pointed
out one night that I had never seen before. It
looked like an Aurora. It was an Aurora type l ight
and it was a very bright green. It changed in color
and was in the airglow layer. It actuall y changed
the height of the airglow below. It brightened it
above where it -- but below it, it seemed t o cut it
down and make it more definitive. Where it wasn't
it was kind of fuzzy along there and then where t his
glow was the airglow kind of jumped up and was sort
of chopped off very sharply. This was very bright.
I don't know what it was . It was apparently some
kind of a Aurora effect. We saw a lot of meteorites