Ozone Depletion

In the middle of the 20th century [ clarification needed ] NASA augmented its mission of Earth’s observation and redirected it toward environmental quality. The result was the launch of Earth Observing System (EOS) in1980s, which was able to monitor one of the global environmental problems— ozone depletion . [ 69 ] The first comprehensive worldwide measurements were obtained in 1978 with the Nimbus-7 satellite and NASA scientists at the Goddard Institute for Space Studies . [ 70 ]