• Question: How much impact can earths ozone layer take ?

    Asked by shasow15 to Colm, Eoin, Joseph, Lauren, Stephen on 14 Nov 2013.
    • Photo: Stephen Scully

      Stephen Scully answered on 14 Nov 2013:

      Ozone is a gas and the ozone layer gets impacted every day by small meteors.

    • Photo: Eoin O Colgain

      Eoin O Colgain answered on 15 Nov 2013:

      The atmosphere also protects us from cosmic rays made up of charge sub-atomic particles. The higher up one goes, the more radiation (rays) one receives. Flying a lot in planes increases exposure.

      So, it is not just the meteors, one also needs to think about the extremely small particles we cannot see.

    • Photo: Joseph Roche

      Joseph Roche answered on 15 Nov 2013:

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