Show Ozone Blanket Protects Life Ufe Form of Oxygen Absorbs 1 U Ultra Violet Itra- Itra Violet Sunlight Washington DC D.C. New D.C.-New New equipment for tor measuring the thickness of at the earths earth's ozone blanket upon which probably depends all life on this planet is being tested by i Their equipment measures the amount of a single narrow wave waveband waveband waveband band of infrared light that gets through to the earths earth's surface Despite the extreme importance of at the ozone blanket all means of measuring its thickness in the past have had serious drawbacks The tir r I A m Aft n if if T o c z J t well as hoped should make possible accurate ozone measures from day dayto dayto dayto to day and possibly also indicate the height of the blanket in the at at- I Ozone Is a molecular form of ot oxy oxy- gen It is created In the upper atmosphere atmosphere atmosphere at at- 15 miles or more above the earths earth's surface by the action of at ultraviolet light from the sun on the molecules of at ordinary atmospheric atmospheric atmospheric atmos atmos- oxygen An extremely thin layer Is formed about formed about two to three millimeters et rl at surface pressure |