Gemini 7 Technical Debriefing, 1965
NASA-UAP-D021 · page 169 of 222
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159 pictures over Brazil that have never been gotten before. They were not called up. We took them with the IR color shifted .f i l m. We got some pictures of Mexi co that were not called up. Lovel l We ·got a good sequence over North Africa. Borman We got several good sequences over North Africa.. Lovell But I am sure tha.t they have been used before. Borman We al so took a seque.nce al ong the southern coast from New Orleans through Fl ori da using color shifted IR t o evaluate the f ilm more than anythi ng el se. I hope this comes in handy. We got some shots of the island chai ns off Florida, to see if they can determine any effect from the hurri cane that went through, Betsy. Lovell As a matter of f act, we got a strip sequence of Cuba too . Borman Al l these are target s of opportunity done without atti tude control, but they were all targets that were listed before f l ight. We got the mouth of the Amazon, and I think that i s the first time t hat has been photographed. Now on the S-6 the weather photography we tried in the l ast pa.ss to ta.ke a successive revol ution picture of weather devel opment. Ve got one good shot over the Andee. We al so got some good shots of wave cl ouds over the Andes during the l atter part of the flight. We l ooked for hurricane or tropical storm Alice in the