When old satellites fall into Earth's atmosphere and burn up, they leave behind tiny particles of aluminum oxide,
🔸which eat away at Earth's protective ozone layer. 🔸
A new study finds that these oxides have 💥increased 8-fold between 2016 and 2022 💥
and will continue to accumulate as the number of low-Earth-orbit satellites skyrockets.
The 1987 Montreal Protocol successfully regulated ozone-damaging