Amateur Scientist: Measure the Height of the Ozone Layer
Featured image by NASA. All other images by Forrest M. Mims III. The ozone layer envelops the entire Earth and protects us all — animals and plants — from most of the sun’s dangerous ultraviolet rays. While there is some ozone at the surface, the main ozone layer begins at the bottom of the stratosphere, just above the troposphere where we live and where weather occurs. This boundary is called the tropopause. You can see where the tropopause merges...
