NASA Climate Watcher Waves Goodbye

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

Jason-3 Animation

Sea Surface Height - Global Average from 1993 - 2011.

OSTM/Jason-2 - All instruments plus data animation

OSTM/Jason-2 - Data/ground track animation

Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich Launch footage

Fathoming the forces that determine global sea levels can be daunting. We present a guide to the basics of ocean surface topography.

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...

One of the best ways to understand Earth's ocean is from the perspective of space.

TOPEX/Poseidon Instruments

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

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

The Jason-3 satellite, launched on January 17, 2016, is allowing scientists to continue a 23-year record of crucial ocean monitoring.

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

Earth’s rising seas are some of the most visible signs of our warming planet. Over the last 23 years, NASA satellite missions have observed a steady rise in global sea levels as polar ice sheets me...

SSH and SST - Global

SSH and SST - Indian Ocean

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 4 at Vandenberg Air Force Base carrying the Jason-3 spacecraft. Liftoff was at 10:42 a.m. PST (1:42 p.m. EST).

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

This animation illustrates the evolution of sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies (relative to the respective normal state) in the Pacific Ocean associated with the 2015-2016 El Niño.

Launching aboard the joint U.S.-European Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite is NASA’s next instrument that will help improve weather forecasting.

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...

A key ocean observation satellite has been named after Earth scientist Michael Freilich

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

For NASA engineer Shannon Statham, building spacecraft is all about being creative.