Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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Cooper
Oh, well, a great many.
Some areas--well , just in
general let's just say that some areaB of the
country would be completely clobbered in and we'd be
traveling over an undercast for great long expanses
of hundreds and hundreds of miles , and anything ·,
that was in there would be--anything t o do with
any areas we desired to photograph in there whether
they were specified immediate areas 01· whether
they were just general pupose or S-5, S-6 , were
not available for photography, and yet the next
day it might be wide open.
The Himals.yas was
an ideal example of that too. For twc, different
days we traveled over that, you couldr..' t see
any of the craters or any of the ice flows or
anything due to the clouds .
You could. see just
occasional areas and some of the lakee would be
open, so it was just heavy cloud cover- through
there for about a 2 day period and then it just
broke up wide open one day. Eut there were a great
many areas that there were cloud covered to the
point that you could not f i nd it. For instance,
the Carnarvon or I should say the woodly side