I mention this like once a week, but since she’s just died, let’s all go look at the ~20 cm Landsat image of Half Dome that Virginia Norwood made.
«Norwood had researchers load a breadboard version of the scanner onto the back of a truck. It amounted to “just a bunch of boxes,” she says. “We could use all the weight we wanted.” […] Having labored so long over the specs, Norwood wasn’t surprised by the high quality of the test images.»
https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/06/29/1025732/the-woman-who-brought-us-the-world/
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If you know where to get originals of these terrestrial-but-field MSS images, I strongly encourage you to share.
@vruba The panchromatic is probably some real Ansel Adams s***.
@vruba My favorite part of that is - since they ran out of time to build a production version - the to-yosemite-in-a-pickup prototype MSS is ultimately what got launched.