TOPEX/Poseidon Ground Tracks

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

Sea Surface Height - Global Average from 1993 - 2011.

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

Jason-3

High Resolution Jason-1 launch images

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

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.

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

Karl and Seymour learn how carbon dioxide is formed in this sketch from The Lollygaggers, a global warming sketch comedy.

Jason-1 Spacecraft Animation

The Falcon 9 protective payload fairing containing the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite

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

High Resolution Jason-1 launch images

TOPEX/Poseidon over Earth

Jason-1 on top of the DPAF

Here we provide side by side comparisons of Pacific Ocean sea surface height (SSH) anomalies of what is presently happening in 2015 with the Pacific Ocean signal during the famous 1997 El Niño.

Jason-1 Launch Configuration

High Resolution Jason-1 launch images

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Jason-1 launch images

SSH and SST - Pacific Ocean

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

OSTM/Jason-2 Spacecraft

This illustration shows the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich spacecraft in orbit above Earth with its deployable solar panels extended.

Sea levels across the globe are rising as a result of a changing climate — and the rate at which they are rising is accelerating. NASA Science Live was recorded Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2020, and featured...