Southern Africa produces almost a third of the Earth’s biomass burning aerosol particles, yet... View Mission
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The Ocean Surface Topography Mission (OSTM) is a joint effort by four organizations to measure... View Mission
The Pre-Aerosol, Clouds, and ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission will make global ocean color... View Mission
Revealing new aspects of the Arctic climate by measuring the full spectrum of polar radiant... View Mission
QuikSCAT mission is intended to record sea-surface wind speed and direction data under all... View Mission
Canada's RADARSAT-1 is a radar satellite featuring variable resolution, and different view... View Mission
The SAGE III instrument is used to study ozone, a gas found in the upper atmosphere that acts as... View Mission
The SAGE III instrument was one of nine experiments on the Russian Meteor-3M spacecraft. It... View Mission
Seasat was the first satellite designed for remote sensing of the Earth's oceans with synthetic... View Mission
The OrbView-2 (formerly SeaStar) satellite carried the SeaWiFS instrument which was designed to... View Mission
The SeaWinds scatterometer is a specialized microwave radar that measures near-surface wind... View Mission
Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite aims to collect the most accurate data yet on sea level... View Mission
Sentinel-6B will provide ongoing measurements of global sea level rise – one of the most... View Mission
SIR-C/X-SAR, part of NASA's Mission to Planet Earth, was studying how our global environment is... View Mission
The Soil Moisture Active-Passive (SMAP) mission has been recommended by the NRC Earth Science... View Mission
This program demonstrated the ability to put two weather satellites in geosynchronous orbit and... View Mission
SORCE is a NASA-sponsored satellite mission that will provide state-of-the-art measurements of... View Mission
The Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) obtained elevation data on a near-global scale to... View Mission
The Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP) is a joint mission to extend key... View Mission
The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission will contribute to a better understanding... View Mission
TEMPO will measure atmospheric pollution covering most of North America, from Mexico City to the... View Mission
The Tomographic Experiment using Radiative Recombinative Ionospheric EUV and Radio Sources (... View Mission
TIROS began continuous coverage of the Earth's weather in 1962 and provided the first accurate... View Mission
The Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer, launched in July 1996 onboard an Earth Probe Satellite (... View Mission
TOPEX/Poseidon monitored global ocean circulation, improved global climate predictions, and... View Mission
Greenhouse gases and global warming continue to be one of the major environmental concerns in... View Mission
TROPICS observing system will measure environmental and inner-core conditions for tropical... View Mission
TSIS-1 will provide absolute measurements important for accurate scientific models of climate... View Mission
TSIS-2, will collect the most detailed measurements to date of how much radiation the Sun emits... View Mission
After a 14-year deployment on a mission to collect data on Earth's atmosphere and its... View Mission