Lunar Prospector : mission et cibles

Début du projet

6 janvier 1998

Fin déclarée

31 juillet 1999

Le début que l’archive déclare est celui du projet, pas le lancement, et une fin qu’elle ne déclare pas ne veut pas dire que la mission est toujours en cours.

Cibles à ouvrir en 3D :

• Lune

Une cible déclarée est ce sous quoi l’archive range les données de la mission, pas un relevé d’observation.

The Lunar Prospector (LP) Mission consisted of a spin-stabilized orbiter spacecraft designed to perform continuous mapping of the Moon from a circular polar orbit. The LP spacecraft was launched on January 7, 1998 (UTC). The primary mapping mission began on January 16, 1998 and lasted for one year. During most of the mapping mission, the spacecraft mapped the surface from a 118-minute, circular, polar orbit 100 km above the moon's surface. Starting on December 19, 1998, the spacecraft was maneuvered into a 40 km orbit as a transition into a low altitude extended mission orbit. The transition orbit was used to collect gravity data in order to verify the moon's gravity model in preparation for conducting the extended mission orbit. The extended mission began on January 16, 1999. The objective of the extended mission was to provide higher resolution mapping from a circular, polar orbit averaging 30 km above the moon's surface. The Lunar Prospector mission ended on July 31, 1999 when the spacecraft was intentionally impacted into a crater near the south pole. The impact site was targeted for one of the hydrogen deposits detected by Lunar Prospector's Neutron Spectrometer.

Citée en anglais, telle que l’archive la publie, lue le 4 octobre 2026.

Identifiant dans l’archive, qui en est la citation : urn:nasa:pds:context:investigation:mission.lunar_prospector

NASA Planetary Data System, PDS Registry, investigation context products. Dates et cibles lues le 29 septembre 2026 ; comment citer l’archive : https://pds.nasa.gov/datastandards/citing/

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