Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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Cooper
Cloud Coverage .
We had varied cloud coverage
t hroughout the flight .
Conrad
Boy, I think we saw every phenomenon you could
think of with t he clouds.
Cooper
Just about everyt hing you could t hink of.
We saw
typhoons , and hurricanes , and-­
Conrad
We saw well defined eyes in these tropical storms
and others without­ -with such ci rrus cover t hat you
couldn' t define an eye.
We saw some of the most
fant asti c thunder st orms we have ever seen.
Cooper
We saw hundreds and hundr eds and hundreds of miles
of t r ememdous big thunder storm lines with squall
lines going across it .
Conrad
Near Sout h America.
Cooper
Had at times as many as 15 to 20 thunderstorms
that were lighting up all at the same time.
Conrad
I think I have some good 16 mm camera coverage of
t he thunderstorm lightning at night .
Cooper
And these are--then we saw--then we had
great
expanses over the same areas of excel lent weather,
clear weather.
We saw a lot of dust storms