Water Vapor

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...

Radiometer Install - April 2007

Early morning at the launch pad

Jason-3 Satellite Prepared For Launch

t - 7 minutes - Photo: Tom Shain

Jason-1 TRSR

Jason-1 readies for launch in its bay at Vandenberg, AFB (10/31/01)

The SpaceX Falcon 9 with the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite is lifted to vertical at Space Launch Complex 4

High Resolution Jason-1 launch images

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...

OSTM/Jason-2 Radiometer Antenna

Jason-1 launch images

Jason-1 LRA

OSTM/Jason-2 DORIS

Jason-3 on the Launch Pad

TOPEX/Poseidon Radiometer

Launch preparations are progressing! (11/21/01) Photos: Stacy Mitchell of John Hopkins APL/TIMED project

Jason-1 Lithograph

Jason-3 Launch

Jason-1 DORIS

Wave Height

Jason-1: JMR instrument

OSTM/Jason-2 Radiometer Antenna

Launch preparations are progressing! (11/21/01) Photos: Stacy Mitchell of John Hopkins APL/TIMED project

TOPEX/Poseidon Mission to Planet Earth