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From: billc@trsvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: JSC world map display
Message-ID: <191800011@trsvax>
Date: 3 Oct 88 13:35:00 GMT
References: <1886@datapg.MN.ORG>
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Nf-From: trsvax.UUCP!billc    Oct  3 08:35:00 1988


/* Written 11:10 am  Oct  1, 1988 by titan.UUCP!phil in trsvax:sci.space.shuttle */
In article <1886@datapg.MN.ORG> sewilco@DataPg.MN.ORG (Scot E Wilcoxon) writes:
>NASA Select TV often shows the world map at JSC.  The blue map
>shows the ground track for the next two (and a half?) orbits,
>with the orbit numbers.  What are the white half-rectangle symbols
>(they look like a bracket "[")?

They delineate the orbits.  That is, they mark where one orbit ends
and the next orbit begins.

			William LeFebvre
			Department of Computer Science
			Rice University
			<phil@Rice.edu>
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No!  This is not right.

The brackets merely denote sunrise and sunset.
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