Gemini 7 Technical Debriefing, 1965

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determine those.
Lovell
The Red Sea and the Gul f of Eden as it goes into the
Arabian Sea were very prominent.
Borman
Yes.
Lovell
The 90 degree bend was very, very prominent .
Borman
We have a difference of opinion here, but I thought the maps
were entirely adequate.
Mountains were, as far as we could
tell , adequately portrayed, al though, we did not have any
landmarks that were in the mountainous area.
Most of ours
for some reason were in the tropical areas and they were
cloudy all the time.
The cities that we saw were by and
large over the United States.
Lovell
We did not really see much in the way of cities. We saw the
Australian cities at night, we could see the lights from
them.
Borman
We saw small towns along the coast of Mexico.
Lovell
Also South America.
I wonder what the difference in alti­
tude does to visibility of landmarks? I am sure that your
visibility is going t o really go down.
I think that is
what happened.
Borman
Maybe, although when we were in an orbit of 120 by 178 , I
could not tell the difference.
One difference of course ,
is we were in the darkness at 178.
When we were r eally
looki ng we were around 120 to 140.
I never got the feeling