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Sea Level Mission Will Also Act as a Precision Thermometer in Space – Jet Propulsion Laboratory

To get the best measurements of Earth’s atmosphere, you sometimes have to leave it. This November, the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich spacecraft will do just that.

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To get the best measurements of Earth’s atmosphere, you sometimes have to leave it. This November, the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich spacecraft will do just that.
When a satellite by the name of Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich
launches this November, its primary focus will be to monitor sea level rise
with extreme precision. But an instrument aboard the spacecraft will also
provide atmospheric data that will improve weather forecasts, track hurricanes,
and bolster climate models.
“Our fundamenta…

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