Lunar Prospector Stories

Creative Impact Experiment to Mark End of Lunar Prospector

In one final blast of scientific productivity, NASA's Lunar Prospector mission will end abruptly in the early morning hours of July 31 with a controlled crash into a crater near the south pole of the moon.

Lunar Prospector (Artist’s Concept)

This artist's concept of the Lunar Prospector shows the spacecraft in lunar orbit. Instrument masts are fully deployed.