Concentrations of ozone-damaging aluminum oxide in Earth’s atmosphere could rise by 650% in the coming years due to an increase in the number of unused satellites burning up during re-entry, according to a first-of-its-kind study. As mega satellite satellites continue to attract interest from private companies, this could be pretty bad news for our planet’s… Read More »
Susan Solomon was born and raised in Chicago and received her PhD in atmospheric chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley. He is known for his work in the 1980s that revealed how the Earth’s protective ozone layer was being depleted by man-made chemicals. Their work formed the basis of the 1989 Montreal protocol, an… Read More »
An illustration of the satellite re-entry next to a picture of polar stratospheric clouds.iStock/Getty Images Plus; Roy Rochlin/Getty Images; insider information Spacecraft burning in the atmosphere leave behind metal particles. Scientists are racing to understand whether this affects the climate. One risk is that these particles can spark rainbow-colored clouds that damage the ozone layer.… Read More »