The Surface Water and Ocean Topography mission will explore how the ocean absorbs atmospheric heat and carbon, moderating global temperatures and climate change. Though climate change is driving sea ...

A U.S.-French satellite that will map almost all of the world's oceans, lakes and rivers rocketed into orbit Friday. The predawn launch aboard a SpaceX rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Using underwater robots in the waters surrounding Antarctica, scientists at Caltech have shown that the intersection of strong currents with the slope of landmasses rising from the ocean floor makes a ...

Researchers have for the first time reconstructed the three-dimensional structure of powerful vertical ocean currents off Antarctica using satellite observations, finding that these flows plunge ...

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 ...

Launched in December 2022, the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) Mission houses a first-of-its-kind satellite instrument, KaRin, with an interferometric Ka-band active radar and a near-nadir ...

It’s a strange thought, but a true one. We’ve mapped the Moon in remarkable detail, even its far side, yet large parts of Earth’s oceans are still a mystery. The seafloor, which covers most of our ...

NASA SWOT’s solar panels unfold as part of a test in January at a Thales Alenia Space facility in Cannes, France, where the satellite is being assembled. SWOT will measure elevations of Earth’s ocean ...