Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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Clearly.
We saw the air glow as usual, always
around everywhere - - around the night.
We did see streaks in the air glow that they talked
to us about -- the dark streaks in it which' Jim and
Ed mentioned.
They are really definitely there.
Right -- banded are~s.
And we saw this one in the
southern Aurora down on the southern celestial pole
which was quite - - pretty unus~al.
Really hard to
def ine at f irst too -- just what it was.
Yeah, it looked like a part of the air gl ow, but it
was actually an Aurora - - i t changed the
It changed the air gl ow thickness too
Changed the air glow thickness and it changed the
smooth curvature of the earth -- it put a halt in
the black outline of the earth -­
Right.
And i t was a very green band of what you'd -- what
kind of Aurora do you call that where it is sort of
like a sheet
Yeah
the stria or striden -­ somethi ng like
that.
Yeah.
Then one other -­ the only other observation other
than we did see a lot of micrometeorites and I saw