Multispectral Scanner

The Multispectral Scanner (MSS) is one of the Earth's observing sensors introduced in the Landsat program. A Multispectral Scanner was placed aboard each of the first five Landsat satellites.{{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

Website Curator: Laura Rocchio Site last updated: December 2, 2008

The scanner was designed at Hughes Aerospace by 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."{{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 }}