Jason-1
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Jason-1 was a satellite altimeter oceanography mission. It sought to monitor global ocean circulation, study the ties between the ocean and the atmosphere, improve global climate forecasts and predict
Artist's interpretation of the Jason-1 satellite
A Boeing Delta II rocket carrying the Jason 1 and Timed satellites from Space Launch Complex-2 on Dec. 7.
Poseidon radar altimeter
Laser retroreflector
TOPEX/Poseidon
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TOPEX/Poseidon was a joint satellite altimeter mission between NASA, the U.S. space agency; and CNES, the French space agency, to map ocean surface topography. Launched on August 10, 1992, it was the
Jason-1
…25 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. Jason-1 is the successor to the TOPEX/Poseidon mission, which measured ocean surface topography from 1992 through 2005. Like its predecessor, Jason-1 is a joint project between the NASA (United…
Artist's rendering of the TOPEX/Poseidon satellite.
The accurate determination of the ocean height is made by first characterizing the precise height of the spacecraft above the center of the Earth.
The 1997-98 El Nino