2016 Antarctic Ozone Hole Meets Scientist Expectations
Music credit: Hope and Future by Brice Devoli [SACEM]
The hole in Earth’s ozone layer that forms over Antarctica each September grew to about 8.9 million square miles in 2016 before starting to recover, according to scientists from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) who monitor the annual phenomenon.
For more information: https://ozonewatch.gsfc.nasa.gov/
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
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Producer
- Kathryn Mersmann (USRA)
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Scientists
- Paul Newman (NASA/GSFC)
- Susan Strahan (USRA)
- Natalya Kramarova (SSAI)
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Science writers
- Audrey Haar (Telophase)
- Theo Stein (NOAA)
Release date
This page was originally published on Tuesday, October 25, 2016.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:48 PM EDT.