EO Observation Deck: Ozone Dataset View

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Ozone December 2005
Coverage of this dataset spans November 1978 to December 2005.

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Ozone color palette
Product description: Ozone gas in the stratosphere (upper atmosphere) absorbs ultraviolet light, thus protecting living things from the sun's harmful ultraviolet radiation. Man-made chemicals and weather conditions over Antarctica combine to deplete stratospheric ozone concentrations during the winter months there. (Data from Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer [TOMS] project).

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	Coverage of this dataset spans November 1978 to December 2005.
	The animation features of the Earth Observatory are currently unavailable. We apologize for the inconvenience. To view the full temporal span of this dataset, please view the Ozone monthly holdings.