Gemini 7 Technical Debriefing, 1965

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that I was going up hill or going down hill in the elliptical
orbit.
Lovell
We saw one good airport.
I thought it was Ellington, and it
turned out to be Houston International.
Borma.n
We also saw that one in South America very well.
I t stood
out loud and clear, that white runway on the Apollo landmark.
When we finally got over it there was a break in the clouds
and at the last minute we got a picture of it.
Lovell
Airports in general would stand out.
BOl!l!liBl1
Coastlines are the answer.
They are by far the beet land­
marks you have.
I do not think islands a.re too good for
landmarks unless they are relatively large; small islands
are tough to pick up.
Lovell
And they are usually covered by clouds.
Borman
Color contrast between land and water was very good, parti­
cularly along sandy beaches.
We had onboard some photographs
that were taken on GT-5 with the actual scene we were
viewing.
We were able to compare the color of these photo­
graphs.
We found it then to be very, very close.
One
strange phenomena is that greens don't come through.
The
very green jungles of Brazil and Africa appeared almost a
brownish-mustard color. The predominant color is blue,
even at night time with a full moon.
Lovell
I thought the jungle even iooked blue, bluish-brown.