“…Even though its O 2 absorption cross-section is small, about 1 x 10 -24 cm 2 [21], it is excitating O 2 molecules. Its attenuating about ten-fold between 100 to 80 km is, of course, mainly due to ozone molecules [19]. Between the Lyβ and Lyα lines, there are eight bands (centred at 107, 109.…”