Jason (disambiguation)

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Jason is a hero of Greek mythology who led the Argonauts and married Medea.

Jason or JASON may also refer to:

Names

• Jason (given name)
• Jason (surname)

Places

• Jason, North Carolina
• Jason Islands, Falkland Islands

Transport

• HMS Jason, several ships in the Royal Navy
• Jason (ship), Norwegian whaling vessel
• USS Jason (AC-12), 1912–1936
• USS Jason (AR-8), US Navy repair ship 1944–1995

Exploration science

• Jason (rocket), sounding rocket launched in 1958
• Jason (ROV), unmanned submersible robot developed by Robert Ballard
• Jason Jr., prototype of the Jason robot submersible used to explore the wreck of the RMS Titanic
• Jason-1, satellite altimeter used to measure the ocean surface topography, deactivated 2013
• Jason-2, satellite altimeter, successor to Jason-1
• Jason-3, satellite altimeter, successor to Jason-2
• Jason, crater on Phoebe, one of Saturn's moons

Other

• JASON (advisory group), USA defense-oriented consulting group
• Jason (cartoonist) (born 1965), cartoonist (pen name of John Arne Sæterøy)
• Jason (multi-agent systems development platform), an interpreter for an extended version of the AgentSpeak programming language
• JASON Project, high school science advocacy program
• JASON reactor, nuclear reactor in Greenwich, London, England
• Jason of Thessalonica

See also

• JSON, a lightweight computer data interchange format sometimes pronounced as "Jason"
• J'Son (singer), American R&B singer
• J-Son (born 1985), Brazilian-born Swedish rapper and songwriter
• J'son (comics), a Marvel Comics character
• J'Sun, American singer and contestant on season 4 of The Voice (U.S.)