The TOPEX/Poseidon mission, a joint NASA-CNES effort, strives to provide highly accurate global ocean topography measurements over a three year period utilizing highly advanced satellite radar altimetry techniques. Scheduled for launch in late 1991, the TOPEX/Poseidon satellite, together with ESA's first European remote sensing satellite and NASA's scatterometer, promises to provide a fundamental breakthrough in the present knowledge of how the oceans work as a global system. As part of the World Ocean Circulation Experiment, TOPEX/Poseidon measurements will aid in the determination of the three-dimensional current structure of the global oceans.
TOPEX/Poseidon - An international satellite oceanography mission
01.10.1986
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TOPEX/POSEIDON Mission Overview
NTRS | 1994
|TOPEX/Poseidon mission early results
NTRS | 1993
|TOPEX-POSEIDON: le concept de mission
Online Contents | 1995
|TOPEX-POSEIDON: le concept de mission
Online Contents | 1995
|Structural development of Topex/Poseidon satellite
NTRS | 1992
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