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the Moon · All Worlds · Explore · 1926–2026 · 2 of 37 located marks in focus · editorial corpus · no live source connected
mission
Close ✕Lunar Prospector
Mapped hydrogen at the poles, and was deliberately crashed into a polar crater to look for water in the plume. Orbiter, operated by NASA of United States. Robotic.
No recorded place · 1998-01-07 – 1998-01-11
Lunar mission
Operated byNASA · United States
ClassOrbiter · robotic
Outcomesuccess
Launched1998-01-07
Arrived1998-01-11
PositionThis mission did not reach the surface. It has no position because it never had one.
Connections
- operated by NASA — Lunar Prospector was flown by NASA.
Mission history61 missions · 1959 → 2026 · 2 planned
1145 objects · 280 located (1 withheld pending verification) · 865 unlocated · No relief basemap · marks drawn only from sourced coordinates