NASA has signed an agreement with other U.S. and international agencies to launch the Ocean Surface Topography Mission in 2008. The satellite, named Jason-2, will increase our understanding of ocean ...

Ocean heat transport pathways to Totten Glacier revealed so far by this research group. Background color is the mean dynamic ocean topography for the period 2011-2022. A deep ocean basin is extending ...

WASHINGTON — Less than a month after launch, the NASA-French space agency Ocean Surface Topography Mission (OSTM)/Jason 2 oceanography satellite has produced its first complete maps of global ocean ...

Scientists around the world soon will have access to high-definition views of most of Earth's surface water, finer details of its topography, and data that show how inland waters and oceans change ...

Thanks to the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite, we can see the ocean warming up. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

In a revolutionary advancement in oceanography, scientists have created one of the most detailed maps of the ocean floor to date. The map, compiled using high-resolution data from the SWOT satellite, ...

A satellite-mounted instrument has in just one year produced higher-resolution imagery of the global seafloor than that from comparable systems over the past 30 years. At present, ship-mounted ...

An artist’s concept shows the Surface Water and Ocean Topography satellite, or SWOT, which launched in December 2022 from Vandenberg Space Force Base and recently noted warmer waters off the coast of ...

At undersea structures called oceanic spreading centres, two tectonic plates split apart, and molten rock from volcanic activity solidifies to produce the crust of the sea floor. These spreading ...

Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) will produce near-instantaneous images of sea surface height and measure the height of land water bodies, revealing changes in sea, lake and river levels down ...

Global map showing gravitational variations caused by topographic changes. In purple higher features like seamounts and in green lower features like rift zones. There are better maps of the Moon’s ...