Shrinking ozone hole (IMAGE)

University of Colorado at Boulder

Shrinking ozone hole

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The 2019 ozone hole reached a peak extent of 6.3 million square miles on September 8, 2019, the lowest maximum observed in decades. This NASA visualization depicts ozone concentrations in Dobson Units, the standard measure for stratospheric ozone.

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