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Landsat Proved the Power of Remote Sensing

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The light from the mirror passed through filters and onto the 24-element array of detectors—six for each of the MSS’s four spectral bands—yielding 24 channels of video data. The satellite then transmitted the signal to a ground station; if no station was within range, it stored the data on magnetic tape for later transmission.

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