2023 Ozone Hole

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2023 Ozone Hole Ranks 16th Largest, NASA and NOAA Researchers Find

The 2023 Antarctic ozone hole reached its maximum size on Sept. 21, according to annual satellite and balloon-based measurements made by NASA and NOAA. At 10 million square miles, or 26 million square kilometers, the hole ranked as the 12th largest single-day ozone hole since 1979. During the peak of the ozone depletion season from Sept. 7 to Oct. 13,…