Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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in Arabia and Africa.
Yes .
You could see those desert storms real clear­
ly.
The wind picking up and moving the sand al ong.
Other days we saw the same areas just as clear with
no wind.
Beaut iful weather.
It was interesting in those deserts to notice that
you could really pick up the prevailing wind t rails.
Yes.
You know from the sand flow.
The way the sand dunes were-­
And which as I sort of remember back e1omewhere
there was a lot of explanation about how the
whole desert moves , you know, and you could r eally
see these great --! mean for a hundred miles-­
hundreds of miles you could pick out t hese great
obvi ous prevailing wind tracks in t he sand that
just stretched for hundreds of miles .
Yes .
And again t his was in Egypt and south of Egypt -­
down in t hat area.
Well, you could actually see by the c1oud
format ion--was odd, too.
The t hing I noticed was,