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Ney and Pepin1 inferred from the photometry of a stellar photograph from Gemini 9 that “either Link's layer does not exist at all or it is at lower altitude than 80 km”. I should like, therefore, to point out that I arrived at the second alternative of their conclusion as early as the year 1948, on the basis of a comparison of extinction and twilight phenomena2. This conclusion is also to be found in my review work3.
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LINK, F. High-absorbing Layer in the Terrestrial Atmosphere. Nature 212, 1561–1562 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/2121561b0
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