What we learned by crashing Lunar Prospector into the Moon

Early on July 31, 1999, human eyes fastened with rapt eagerness on the Moon’s south pole as a spacecraft plunged to its demise in a breathtaking bid to uncover whispers of water on a parched world. Although Lunar Prospector was quickly snuffed out in a shadowy crater, it ignited a search for the building blocksContinue reading “What we learned by crashing Lunar Prospector into the Moon”
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