TOPEX/Poseidon Artist's Concept

These photos were taken during the Payload Attach Fitting (PAF) mating operation with Jason-1. (11/14/01) Photos: Scott Michel

Watch the Jason-3 Mission Briefing from Friday, Jan 15, 2016 - panelists gave an overview of the Jason-3 mission.

OSTM/Jason-2 GPSP

OSTM/Jason-2 Radiometer Antenna

Radiometer Install - April 2007

This artist's concept show Jason-3 over France.

These photos were taken during the Payload Attach Fitting (PAF) mating operation with Jason-1. (11/14/01) Photos: Scott Michel

These photos were taken during the Payload Attach Fitting (PAF) mating operation with Jason-1. (11/14/01) Photos: Scott Michel

Variability of Ocean Dynamic Topography

QuickTime VR of TOPEX/Poseidon

Jason-3 Ready for Launch

TOPEX/Poseidon Mission to Planet Earth

Jason-3

Radiometer Installation Team - April 2007

Jason-1: JMR instrument

The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich spacecraft lifts off from Space Launch Complex 4 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, Nov. 21, 2020, at 9:17 a.m. PST

Our planet is changing. Our ocean is rising. And it affects us all. That’s why a new international satellite will continue the decades-long watch over our global ocean and help us better understand...

Jason-1: LRA instrument

Jason-3 Satellite Prepared For Launch

In this illustration, the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich spacecraft - the world's latest sea-level satellite - orbits Earth with its deployable solar panels extended.

Jason-1 launch images

Mike Davis in front of the faring

For NASA JPL engineer Parag Vaze, studying Earth’s rising ocean has been a career three decades in the making.

Jason-1 Poster

Jason-1 launch images