Ozone Layer
NASA is an exploration agency, and one of our missions is to know our home. In the 1960s, NASA astronauts…
There’s one planet NASA studies more than any other: Earth. With our unique vantage point from space, NASA collects information…
In 2024 the ozone hole over Antarctica reached its annual maximum extent, with an area of 8.5 million square miles.
Healing continues in the atmosphere over the Antarctic: a hole that opens annually in the ozone layer over Earth’s southern…
NASA has selected four proposals for concept studies of missions to help us better understand Earth science key focus areas…
Editor’s note: This article has been updated to clarify the ranking of the 2023 ozone hole. It is the 12th…
As NASA explores, innovates, and inspires through its work, agency inventions aimed at monitoring atmospheric pollution, studying samples from asteroids,…
What’s going on with the hole in the ozone layer? There used to be a huge problem, and because of…
Researchers found that emissions of the powerful greenhouse gas dropped for several years near the nation’s second-largest metropolitan area.
