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From GOES to GeoXO

For nearly 50 years, NOAA and NASA have partnered to develop and advance NOAA’s geostationary satellites as part of the most sophisticated weather-observing, environmental monitoring, and space weather monitoring satellite system in the world.

2025 Ozone Hole Update

This year, the ozone hole over Antarctica reached its annual maximum extent on Sept. 9th, 2025, with an area of 8.83 million square miles (22.86 million square kilometers.)

How NASA Sees the Air We Breathe

NASA and NOAA, among other agencies, worked together this summer through the STAQS and AEROMMA missions to calibrate and validate NASA’s new TEMPO satellite. The satellite and missions combined aim to not only better measure air quality, and the major pollutants that impact it, but also to improve air quality, from street to stratosphere.

Ozone 101: What is the Ozone Hole?

Let’s back up to the basics and understand what caused the Ozone Hole, its effects on the planet, and what scientists predict will happen in future decades.