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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11781/",
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            "release_date": "2015-05-06T12:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Big Ozone Holes Headed For Extinction By 2040",
            "description": "The next three decades will see an end of the era of big ozone holes. In a new study, scientists from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center say that the ozone hole will be consistently smaller than 8 million square miles by the year 2040.Ozone-depleting chemicals in the atmosphere cause an ozone hole to form over Antarctica during the winter months in the Southern Hemisphere. Since the Montreal Protocol agreement in 1987, emissions have been regulated and chemical levels have been declining. However, the ozone hole has still remained bigger than 8 million square miles since the early 1990s, with exact sizes varying from year to year.The size of the ozone hole varies due to both temperature and levels of ozone-depleting chemicals in the atmosphere. In order to get a more accurate picture of the future size of the ozone hole, scientists used NASA’s AURA satellite to determine how much the levels of these chemicals in the atmosphere varied each year. With this new knowledge, scientists can confidently say that the ozone hole will be consistently smaller than 8 million square miles by the year 2040. Scientists will continue to use satellites to monitor the recovery of the ozone hole and they hope to see its full recovery before the end of the century.Research: Inorganic chlorine variability in the Antarctic vortex and implications for ozone recovery.Journal: Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, December 18, 2014.Link to paper: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2014JD022295/abstract.Here is the YouTube video. || ",
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            "title": "Instagram: Big Ozone Holes Headed For Extinction By 2040",
            "description": "The next three decades will see an end of the era of big ozone holes. In a new study, scientists from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center say that the ozone hole will be consistently smaller than 8 million square miles by the year 2040.Ozone-depleting chemicals in the atmosphere cause an ozone hole to form over Antarctica during the winter months in the Southern Hemisphere. Since the Montreal Protocol agreement in 1987, emissions have been regulated and chemical levels have been declining. However, the ozone hole has still remained bigger than 8 million square miles since the early 1990s, with exact sizes varying from year to year.The size of the ozone hole varies due to both temperature and levels of ozone-depleting chemicals in the atmosphere. In order to get a more accurate picture of the future size of the ozone hole, scientists used NASA’s AURA satellite to determine how much the levels of these chemicals in the atmosphere varied each year. With this new knowledge, scientists can confidently say that the ozone hole will be consistently smaller than 8 million square miles by the year 2040. Scientists will continue to use satellites to monitor the recovery of the ozone hole and they hope to see its full recovery before the end of the century.Research: Inorganic chlorine variability in the Antarctic vortex and implications for ozone recovery.Journal: Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, December 18, 2014.Link to paper: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2014JD022295/abstract. || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30571/",
            "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual",
            "release_date": "2015-01-15T00:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "Science with SOFIA",
            "description": "First image in presentation || sofia_montage_print.jpg (1024x575) [201.0 KB] || sofia_montage.png (4098x2304) [7.8 MB] || sofia_montage_searchweb.png (320x180) [106.7 KB] || sofia_montage_web.png (320x179) [106.7 KB] || sofia_montage_thm.png (80x40) [8.4 KB] || randolf_klein_sofia.hwshow [60 bytes] || Dr. Randolf Klein's AAS presentation from January 2015 || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30497/",
            "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual",
            "release_date": "2014-03-09T11:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "The Milky Way Galaxy's Circumnuclear Ring",
            "description": "The Circumnuclear Ring (CNR) is a torus of ionized gas and warm dust 10 light-years in diameter orbiting about Sagittarius A-star (Sgr A*), the 4-million solar-mass black hole at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy, 27,000 light-years from Earth. Large quantities of interstellar dust and gas between the Galactic center and Earth make it nearly impossible to study the CNR at visible or ultraviolet wavelengths. Fortunately, radiation at infrared wavelengths can pass through the clouds of dust and gas. These images capture the infrared emission from stars (HST/NICMOS), ionized gas (HST/NICMOS), and warm dust (SOFIA/FORCAST) within the central 10 light-years of the Galaxy. A cluster of massive, young stars seen at the center of the upper right image is responsible for ionizing the gas (middle right image) and heating the dust (lower right image) in the CNR. Observations from the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA)/Faint Object Infrared Camera for the SOFIA Telescope (FORCAST) instrument present the highest spatial resolution images of the warm dust emission from the CNR at the far-infrared wavelengths and reveal its \"clumpy\" nature. Calculations predict that such clumps within the CNR should be ripped apart due to the strong tidal forces from Sgr A*, which means that the CNR will appear as a much different structure 50,000 years from now. || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30132/",
            "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual",
            "release_date": "2013-10-17T12:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "SOFIA views Orion in Mid-IR",
            "description": "This three-panel comparison of Orion's Messier 42 (M42) region is composed of a visible light image from the Hubble Space Telescope, a near-infrared image captured by the European Southern Observatory in Chile, and a mid-infrared mosaic image taken by SOFIA's Faint Object InfraRed Camera for the SOFIA Telescope, or FORCAST. The FORCAST image, a two-filter false-color composite (20 microns – green, 37 microns – red), reveals detailed structures in the clouds of star forming material, as well as heat radiating from a cluster of luminous newborn stars seen in the upper right. || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30136/",
            "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual",
            "release_date": "2013-10-17T12:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "SOFIA Overview video",
            "description": "A video explains SOFIA || SOFIA_print.jpg (1024x576) [78.7 KB] || SOFIA_searchweb.png (320x180) [66.2 KB] || SOFIA_thm.png (80x40) [4.8 KB] || SOFIA.mov (960x540) [47.0 MB] || SOFIA.webm (960x540) [12.9 MB] || a_sofia_overview_movie.hwshow [64 bytes] || For More Information || See [www.sofia.usra.edu](www.sofia.usra.edu) || ",
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            "id": 30138,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30138/",
            "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual",
            "release_date": "2013-10-17T12:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "SOFIA view Jupiter in Infrared",
            "description": "Infrared image of Jupiter from SOFIA's First Light flight composed of individual images at wavelengths of 5.4 (blue), 24 (green) and 37 microns (red) made by Cornell University's FORCAST camera. Ground-based infrared observations are impossible at 5.4 and 37 microns and normally very difficult at 24 microns even from high mountaintop observatories such as Mauna Kea due to absorption by water and other molecules in Earth's atmosphere. The white stripe in the infrared image is a region of relatively transparent clouds through which the warm interior of Jupiter can be seen. A recent visual-wavelength picture of approximately the same side of Jupiter is shown for comparison. (Images are oriented with Jupiter's south pole at the top.) || ",
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            "id": 30142,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30142/",
            "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual",
            "release_date": "2013-10-17T12:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "W3 Star-Forming Complex in Perseus by Spitzer and SOFIA",
            "description": "This mid-infrared image of the W3A star cluster in the inset was captured by the FORCAST camera on the SOFIA flying observatory in 2011. It is overlaid on a near-infrared image of the W3 star-forming region from the Spitzer space telescope. The SOFIA image scale is 150 x 100 arcseconds, and the red, green and blue colors represent 37, 20 and 7 μm. The red, green and blue colors in the background image from Spitzer represent 7.9, 4.5, 3.6 μm. || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30135/",
            "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual",
            "release_date": "2011-11-30T12:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "SOFIA views a star-forming region",
            "description": "The name W40 designates this object's number in a catalog of HII regions, clouds of ionized hydrogen often associated with star formation and massive stars. W40 is in the constellation Aquila the Eagle, visible in the Northern hemisphere's autumn sky. W40 itself is a difficult target for optical astronomers because it lies less than 3 degrees from the central plane of the Milky Way, at a distance of about 1600 light years behind obscuring clouds of interstellar dust and gas.This three image comparison shows W40 in visible, near-infrared and mid-infrared wavelengths. The visible-light image on the left is from the Digitized Sky Survey. The W40 region is not especially prominent at visual wavelengths due to intervening interstellar dust. The near-infrared image in the middle is a composite produced by SOFIA Basic Science Principal Investigators Shuping and Vacca using archived Spitzer infrared space telescope data. The interstellar dust in the foreground and within the W40 region is mostly transparent at these wavelengths, so W40 stands out prominently and one can view into the interior of the nebula to see embedded protostars. Some of these objects were labeled with IRS (\"InfraRed Source\") numbers by earlier investigators. The mid-infrared image on the right is a composite of 5.4 micron (blue), 24.2 micron (green) and 34.8 micron (red) images taken with SOFIA's FORCAST camera in May 2011.The field of view is approximate 3 arcminutes on a side. The bright sources in this image are protostars and thermal emission from dust and gas. Emission at 24 and 35 microns is primarily from warm dust. Some of the protostars can be seen in the Spitzer near-infrared image, but the SOFIA data allow easier determination of their dust temperatures. The hottest object, appearing blue and located at lower left, has very little dust surrounding it and is likely nearest to completing its evolution into a fully-fledged star. The other protostars represented by white in this color balance are cooler and thus have a large amount of circumstellar dust, some of it probably in a disk surrounding the central star. || ",
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