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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>The '''Multispectral Scanner''' (MSS) is one of the [[Earth]]'s observing [[Sensor|sensors]] introduced in the [[Landsat program]]. A Multispectral Scanner was placed aboard each of the first five [[Landsat program|Landsat satellites]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/about/mss.html |title=The Landsat Program - Technical Details |accessdate=2007-05-05 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070126235924/http://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/about/mss.html |archivedate=2007-01-26 }} : "The Multispectral Scanner System", NASA Official: Darrel Williams<br />
Website Curator: Laura Rocchio Site last updated: December 2, 2008</ref><br />
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The scanner was designed at [[Hughes Aerospace]] by [[Virginia T. Norwood|Virginia Norwood]]. Her design called for a six band scanner, but the first one launched had only four bands. For her work on the design Norwood is called "The Mother of Landsat."<ref name="Pennisi">{{cite journal |last1=Pennisi |first1=Elizabeth |author-link=Elizabeth Pennisi |title=Meet the Landsat pioneer who fought to revolutionize Earth observation |journal=Science |date=10 September 2021 |volume=373 |issue=6561 |page=1292 |doi=10.1126/science.acx9080|s2cid=239215521 }}</ref><br />
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==MSS technical specifications==<br />
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{| class="wikitable" border="1"<br />
|-<br />
! Sensor type<br />
! Spatial Resolution<br />
! Spectral Range<br />
! Number of Bands<br />
! Temporal Resolution<br />
! Image Size<br />
! Swath<br />
|-<br />
| opto-mechanical<br />
| 68 m X 83 m (or 57 m)<br />
| 0.5 - 1.1&nbsp;μm<br />
| 4, 5 (Landsat 3 only)<br />
| 18 days (L1-L3), 16 days (L4 & L5)<br />
| 185&nbsp;km X 185&nbsp;km<br />
| 185&nbsp;km<br />
|}<br />
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==Notes==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [http://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/?p=3227 NASA Multispectral Scanner page]<br />
* {{Cite web |title=Landsat Proved the Power of Remote Sensing - IEEE Spectrum |url=https://spectrum.ieee.org/landsat |website=[[IEEE]] |language=en}}<br />
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