The Antarctic ozone hole reached its maximum size of the year on September 21, according to annual satellite and balloon-based measurements made by NASA and NOAA.
At 10 million square miles, or 26 million square kilometers, the hole ranked as the 12th largest single-day ozone hole since 1979.
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