Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!ames!skipper!shafer From: shafer@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov (Mary Shafer) Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: Nasa select video and the Shuttle globe display Message-ID: Date: 10 Apr 91 16:23:54 GMT References: <51323@apple.Apple.COM> <1991Apr9.021214.10369@nlm.nih.gov> Sender: shafer@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov Organization: NASA Dryden, Edwards AFB, CA Lines: 23 In-reply-to: shafer@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov's message of 9 Apr 91 04:01:07 GMT In article shafer@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov (Mary Shafer) writes: :>I certainly understand the shuttle groundtrack lines drawn on the display - :>but what are some of the other symbols - such as the large circles drawn on :>the globe - are these groundstations and their communications range to the :>shuttle? Also - what are all the numbers I see at the top of the screen? :The circles are ground station's coverage and you can also see TDRS :satellite coverage. (Well, you can see TDRSS on the color maps that :they send us here, so I think you can see it on the display, but it :may be faint.) You can see where TDRSS isn't, I noticed this morning. There's a lens-shaped area that obscures India and areas to the north and south. That's where there's no TDRSS coverage. My map has the various TDRS boundaries drawn in but that's not on the display. -- Mary Shafer shafer@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov ames!skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov!shafer NASA Ames Dryden Flight Research Facility, Edwards, CA Of course I don't speak for NASA "A MiG at your six is better than no MiG at all"--Unknown US fighter pilot