Gemini 7 Technical Debriefing, 1965

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visible. Cloud coverage, there was a lot of it. The first
three days were relatively clear and from then on there
were lots and lots of clouds.
About the only area that was
consistently clear was the Sahara and the Red Sea a.rea.
The States were cloudy, as was Mexico, South America,
Southern Africa, and a great deal of the ocean was cl oudy.
Lovell
The entire area of the Paci fic Ocean was cloudy.
Borman
Again we ca.n reiterate that i t would be pretty tough to
count on being able to observe specific landmarks at ari::t"
given time. The horizons were interesting. In the daytime
I never noticed much of a difference between the horizon.
We've drawn pictures of them with little notes beside them
that have been carried back, and which will be published.
We noticed the difference in the horizon end the air glow
l ayer between a f'ull Moon and a no Moon.
When we had a f'ull
Moon there was a definite Earth l~er, then almost a normal
blaclmess, and then a definite band of air glow.
When we
had no Moon or a quarter Moon, the area between the Earth
and the outer air glow wa.s more milky.
Lovell
That's right. For sextant sightings the best thing to use,
during a full Moon, was the bottom part of the air glow or
the Earth's horizon, which was probably the upper air hori­