Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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Cooper
FCSD Rep
Cooper
FCSD Rep
159 C
you really could see the lower altitude prevailing
winds in the cirrus clouds or the lower altitude
stratus type cloud you all around and you really
could see the wind pattern and one thing that
r eall y impressed me, was the- - on cloud formations
low altitude cloud formations--up in the Himalayan
areas ,how t hat stratus- type cloud would hang-­
would just completely define the land shape.
You' d
see it hang in the valleys and swirl right down
in the valleys and you'd see where the peaks
were, i t would puff and was quite definitive of
the land mass.
And then coming in off the-­
you could see the prevailing wind direction in
the l ower altitude clouds .
You could see the way
the wind would come in and you'd get the wind
shear where it would hit the mountain peaks
coming in off the desert areas there and it would
kick it up over the peak areas.
Okay.
Let me ask one question.
Okay.
Was ther e--as far as good pictures are concerned- ­
how many pictures did cloud coverage prevent you