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Cassini Spacecraft and Ground Telescope See Violent Saturn Storm
NASA's Cassini spacecraft and a European Southern Observatory ground-based telescope tracked the growth of a giant early-spring storm in Saturn's northern hemisphere so powerful it stretches around the entire planet. The rare storm has been wreaking havoc for months and shot plumes of gas high into the planet's atmosphere.Cassini's radio and plasma wave science instrument first detected the large ...
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Twenty Questions and Answers About the Ozone Layer
A new publication, Twenty Questions and Answers About the Ozone Layer, presents complex science in a straightforward manner. It compliments the 2014 Scientific Assessment Report of Ozone Depletion by WMO and the U.N. Environment Programme. Global ozone depletion is no longer increasing, and initial signs of recovery of the ozone layer have been identified. This is thanks to the 1987 Montreal ...
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The ozone hole of 2008 is larger than in 2007
“After decades of chemical attack, it may take another 50 years or so for the ozone layer to recover fully. As the Montreal Protocol has taught us, when we degrade our environment too far, nursing it back to health tends to be a long journey, not a quick fix”, said Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations, on the occasion of the International Day for the Preservation of Ozone Layer ...
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