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<h2 id="mss-technical-specifications">MSS technical specifications</h2>
<table><tbody><tr><th>Sensor type</th><th>Spatial Resolution</th><th>Spectral Range</th><th>Number of Bands</th><th>Temporal Resolution</th><th>Image Size</th><th>Swath</th></tr><tr><td>opto-mechanical</td><td>68 m X 83 m (or 57 m)</td><td>0.5 - 1.1 μm</td><td>4, 5 (Landsat 3 only)</td><td>18 days (L1-L3), 16 days (L4 & L5)</td><td>185 km X 185 km</td><td>185 km</td></tr></tbody></table>
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<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li><a href="https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/?p=3227">NASA Multispectral Scanner page</a></li>
<li><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/landsat">"Landsat Proved the Power of Remote Sensing - IEEE Spectrum"</a>. <i><a href="/facts/IEEE/UddC4pUW">IEEE</a></i>.</li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>"The Landsat Program - Technical Details". Archived from the original on 2007-01-26. Retrieved 2007-05-05. : "The Multispectral Scanner System", NASA Official: Darrel Williams
Website Curator: Laura Rocchio Site last updated: December 2, 2008 <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070126235924/http://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/about/mss.html" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20070126235924/http://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/about/mss.html</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>Pennisi, Elizabeth (10 September 2021). "Meet the Landsat pioneer who fought to revolutionize Earth observation". Science. 373 (6561): 1292. doi:10.1126/science.acx9080. S2CID 239215521. <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Pennisi" target="_blank">/wiki/Elizabeth_Pennisi</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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