Jason (disambiguation) explained

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)

Entertainment

• Jason Voorhees, the primary antagonist of the Friday the 13th franchise
• Jason (opera), a 1696 opera by Pascal Collasse, libretto by Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
• "Jason" (song), by Terrorvision from Formaldehyde

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 satellite series (Joint Altimetry Satellite Oceanography Network), a series of oceanographic radar altimeter satellites
  • 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), American defense-oriented consulting group
• Jason (cartoonist) (born 1965), cartoonist (pen name of John Arne Sæterøy)
• JASON Project, high school science advocacy program
• JASON reactor, nuclear reactor in Greenwich, London, England
• Jason of Thessalonica

See also

• Jason and the Argonauts (disambiguation)
• J Son (disambiguation) including JSON