{"id":174031,"date":"2023-10-12T07:24:26","date_gmt":"2023-10-12T12:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/esa-satellite-reveals-one-of-the-biggest-ozone-holes-ever"},"modified":"2023-10-12T07:24:26","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T12:24:26","slug":"esa-satellite-reveals-one-of-the-biggest-ozone-holes-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/esa-satellite-reveals-one-of-the-biggest-ozone-holes-ever","title":{"rendered":"ESA satellite reveals one of the biggest ozone holes ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/esa-satellite-reveals-one-of-the-biggest-ozone-holes-ever3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the largest ozone holes on record has been observed over Antarctica this year, according to measurements from the European Space Agency\u2019s Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<b>A lower concentration of O3 molecules<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The ozone hole is a section of the stratosphere of Earth where there is a markedly lower concentration of ozone (O3) molecules. The ozone layer is severely diminishing in some parts of the stratosphere, although it is not technically a hole. By absorbing the bulk of the sun\u2019s harmful ultraviolet (UV) radiation, the ozone layer, a region of the Earth\u2019s atmosphere with a relatively high concentration of ozone molecules, plays a crucial role in safeguarding life on the planet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the largest ozone holes on record has been observed over Antarctica this year, according to measurements from the European Space Agency\u2019s Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite. A lower concentration of O3 molecules The ozone hole is a section of the stratosphere of Earth where there is a markedly lower concentration of ozone (O3) molecules. The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}