SSH and SST - Pacific Ocean

El Niño/La Niña - (12/1996 - 01/2000)

Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich will join a long-standing family of Earth observing satellites from NASA and European partners.

Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich Launch footage

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

The ocean is responsible for Earth's mild climate and makes life on Earth possible for all creatures.

Oceans of Climate Change

Watch the Jason-3 Science Briefing from Friday, Jan 15, 2016 - panelists discussed the science and research of the Jason-3 mission.

B-roll for media. The Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich is an Earth-observing satellite that will collect data on sea level and how it changes over time. By measuring sea surface height, scientists world...

QuickTime VR of TOPEX/Poseidon

SSH and SST - Global

Growing up in landlocked Zimbabwe, NASA JPL engineer Shailen Desai was far from the ocean but still experienced its effects on the climate. Now, he is contributing to an international effort to tra...

This video discusses the water cycle, which is the movement of water around the Earth, and its importance to life. Changes to the water cycle affect climate and vice versa.

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

The ocean-observing Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Nov. 21, 2020 at 12:17 p.m. EST

For over 20 years NASA has been tracking the global surface topography of the ocean in order to understand the important role it plays in our daily lives. Climate change is causing our Ocean to war...

TOPEX/Poseidon Launch

Earth’s global sea levels are rising – and are doing so at an accelerating rate.

Recorded live launch broadcast of Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich

Changing conditions in the Pacific have stirred up Earth’s largest ocean and redistributed its heat, piling up warm waters along U.S. Western shores and raising sea level in the process.

NASA and its partners announced the renaming of the mission, previously known as Sentinel-6A/Jason-CS.

It's hard to "see" sea level rise by just looking at the ocean, but its effects are very real.

TOPEX/Poseidon Ground Tracks

OSTM/Jason-2 - All instruments plus data animation

The Jason-2 satellite sees something brewing in the Pacific. Researchers say it could be a significant El Niño with implications for global weather and climate.

Ice covers 10 percent of Earth's surface and helps moderate the planet's temperature.