We mourn the loss of Virginia T. Norwood, known as the “Mother of Landsat.” She designed the first space-based multispectral scanner that flew on the first #Landsat. Her impact lives on in how we see Earth from space.
image description: black and white photo of a young Virginia Norwood reviewing data on a large sheet of paper with a colleague presumably at an event (based on the people in the background)
it's B! Cavello 🐝
in reply to NASA • • •