TOPEX/Poseidon Launch

Mission team members perform acoustic tests of the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite in a chamber outfitted with giant speakers that blast the spacecraft with sound. This is to ensure that the ...

High Resolution Jason-1 launch images

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

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.

Jason-3

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

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...

Recorded live launch broadcast of Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich

Our World: How High is the Ocean?

Jason-3 Lifts Off!

Sea Surface Height - Global Average from 1993 - 2011.

Early morning at the launch pad

For NASA scientist Severine Fournier, studying our planet knows no borders.

Jason-1 Artists Concept

Global sea level rise is accelerating incrementally over time rather than increasing at a steady rate, as previously thought, according to a new study based on 25 years of NASA and European satelli...

This artist's concept shows Jason-3 over the California coast.

Watching Our Oceans

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...

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

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

SSH and SST - Indian Ocean

TOPEX/Poseidon Poster (no text)

OSTM/Jason-2 Line Drawing

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