A team of researchers at the California Institute of Technology's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, working with a colleague from the University of Edinburgh, has found evidence suggesting that the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai eruption earlier this year may have pushed so much water into the atmosphere that there is a possibility it could weaken the Earth's ozone layer. In their paper published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, the group studied data from satellites to measure how much water was launched into the atmosphere and believe it could lead to weakening of the ozone layer.