Water Vapor

TOPEX/Poseidon Mission to Planet Earth

Jason-1 Radiometer

OSTM/Jason-2 Line Drawing

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, topped with the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite secured inside its payload fairing, is rolled to Space Launch Complex 4

Jason-3 Launch

Jason-1 DORIS

Jason-1 Altimeter

El Niño is characterized by unusually warm ocean temperatures in the eastern equatorial Pacific. The warmer water associated with El Niño displaces colder water in the upper layer of the ocean caus...

Our Rising Seas infographic (version 2020)

This visualization shows total sea level change between 1992 and 2019, based on data collected from the TOPEX/Poseidon, Jason-1, Jason-2, and Jason-3 satellites. Blue regions are where sea level ha...

TOPEX/Poseidon GPS

Jason-3 Ready for Launch

Jason-1 launch images

The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, topped with the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite secured inside its payload fairing, is rolled to Space Launch Complex 4

OSTM/Jason-2 Radiometer Antenna

Sea Surface Height

Jason-3 on the Launch Pad

Launched on January 17, 2016, Jason-3 is a partnership that includes NOAA, NASA, CNES, and EUMETSAT.  The map shown here was generated using sea surface height measurements from the first 10 days (...

This artist's concept show Jason-3 over the Amazon.

Variability of Ocean Dynamic Topography

Jason-1 TRSR

TOPEX/Poseidon DORIS

OSTM/Jason-2 Radiometer Antenna

Spacecraft processing

OSTM/Jason-2 GPSP