The Earth's Ozone Hole from 1979-2007

NASA's been tracking the thinning of the ozone layer the south pole for nearly 20 years. In this slowed-down animation, you can watch the ozone hole's average size each October.
For more information, check out NASA's ozone hole monitoring site: http://ozonewatch.gsfc.nasa.gov/
Or read Wired.com's story about the city most affected by the problem:
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/10/dayintech_1009

Category:

Science & Technology

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• environment
• ozone
• hole
• NASA
• pollution
• animation
• science
• data

[rturozamora37a]

This is a very "tranquil" video. =p

[SuperFlyingBrick]

ozone hole depends on solar activity cycles....

[piper4seeformerly]

it doesn't really look as though the hole is getting larger or ozone is getting depleted. Just some fluctuations.

[TWolfe020]

@zeejenkins No biggie. I was just curious to where your stance was and your reasoning for what you were saying haha.

[zeejenkins]

@TWolfe020 I did not mean for it to come out that way, I was just saying that yes, all theories are nothing but theories, but they still have some factual evidence to prove them, and if they are found to be wrong science tries to correct the mistakes they did. Unlike the unchanging religion.

but, I honestly have no idea what I am talking about... I do not really even know why I got into this discussion. Sorry for wasting your time.

[TWolfe020]

@zeejenkins But the way that you represented that was as if every theory can be right when there are millions of theories that are proven wrong all the time.

[zeejenkins]

@TWolfe020 that you can prove theories....

[TWolfe020]

@zeejenkins what is that proving?

[zeejenkins]

@TWolfe020 there is a theory that if you have 2 pencils and you add another 2 pencils to it, you get 4... Its just a theory, but wait you can test it !

Try it yourself

[TheRiffCalendar]

Looking good...