The claim: Earth's oceans have no 'elevation features' and are in a 'container' A Facebook post shows an image of a string of islands in a calm expanse of ocean alongside a diagram of different ...

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 ...

As you leave the beach and head out into the ocean, there are a few regions you'll go through before reaching the 'deep' ocean. Nearest the shore is a relatively flat region known as the continental ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...