NASA Satellite To Measure Global Sea Level Rise
Space is the best place — maybe the only place — to get a complete picture of how climate change is affecting the Earth's oceans. And what happens in the ocean does not stay in the ocean.
A satellite scheduled to launch from California later this month will measure sea level rise and provide other crucial data to scientists who study how global warming is affecting the Earth's oceans.
Melting ice has already caused sea levels to rise by since 1880, and the trend is accelerating. The Earth's oceans have the vast majority of the extra heat, and about one quarter of
