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The varying intensity of the shortest wave-length 2863 Å of the solar spectrum points to the possibility that labile absorption spectra exist in the higher atmosphere. As spectrographs mounted on V-2 rockets have showen that at a height of 55 km an absorption exists around 2800 Å besides the strong Frauenhofer-lines, and as the termination of the solar spectrum at 2400 Å appears remarkably abrupt, we may suspect a new absorption in the high atmosphere, for which possibly the oxides of nitrogen, primarily the NO +2 or the NO+ ion, are responsible.
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Paul Götz, F.W. Eine Absorptionsschicht der hohen Atmosphäre?. Experientia 3, 238 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02164138
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