New Satellite Mapping Shows an Ozone Hole Over Antarctic
From Times staff and wire reports
This false-color image obtained by the newly launched Japanese ADEOS satellite shows a rapidly developing late-winter Antarctic ozone hole (purple areas) surrounded by a band of high ozone (yellow, green, red areas) at southern mid-latitudes.
The measurements were made by NASA’s Total Ozone Mapping Instrument, carried on the satellite, on Sept. 12. The ozone mapper is part of NASA’s Mission to Planet Earth, a long-term, coordinated research effort to study the Earth as a global environmental system.
