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Ozone hole in south pole 10/2008

auteur: KNMI/ESA/Novapix

référence: t-glb05-10102

Image Size 300 DPI: 10 * 10 cm

The 2008 ozone hole – a thinning in the ozone layer over Antarctica – is larger both in size and ozone loss than 2007 but is not as large as 2006.
This year the area of the thinned ozone layer over the South Pole reached about 27 million square kilometres, compared to 25 million square kilometres in 2007 and a record ozone hole extension of 29 million square kilometres in 2006, which is about the size of the North American continent. Image made from datas of atmospheric sensor onboard ESA's Envisat satellite.

Keywords for this photo:

2008 - ANTARCTICA - ATMOSPHERE - EARTH - EARTH FROM SPACE - ENVISAT - OZONE - OZONE HOLE - PLANET - POLE - SOUTH POLE -