Southern Africa produces almost a third of the Earth’s biomass burning aerosol particles, yet... View Mission

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

On February 24, 2000, Terra began collecting what will ultimately... 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