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In the near future, NOAA scientists will begin using data from an advanced instrument to monitor the health of Earth's stratospheric ozone, a layer in the atmosphere that shields the world's population from harmful levels of the Sun's ultraviolet radiation. The Ozone Mapper Profiler Suite, or OMPS, is one of five new instruments flying aboard NASA's Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership satellite (Suomi NPP), which was launched on October 28, 2011. [Source: NOAA News]
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