The hole above Antarctica in Earth's protective ozone layer this year was slightly smaller than average in recent decades, U.S. space agency NASA said Friday.

The September-October 2013 average size of the hole was 21 million square kilometers, while the average size measured since the mid-1990s when the annual maximum size stopped growing is 22.5 million square kilometers, NASA said in a statement.

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