In the thermosphere and upper mesosphere NOx exists mainly as NO but below 65 km conversion to NO2 occurs. In darkness NOx has a sufficiently long lifetime to be transported downward by the high latitude winter-time polar vortex and perturb stratospheric ozone abundances.

Yet these are exactly the extreme and painful conditions under which women all over the world set out to make their escapes from domestic violence. And even so, right up until today, the bravery of women’s struggles for freedom is still too often met with the cruelty of questions like “Why don’t you just get up and leave,” instead of being given the admiration and respect their struggles deserve.