Uploaded April 2012 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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This visualization shows the crash site of the Lunar Prospector spacecraft using a true color version of the moon from a USGS airbrush texture.

Animation Number: 677
Completed: 1999-07-23
Animators: Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC) (Lead)
Stuart A. Snodgrass (GST)
Scientists: Lisa Chu-Thielbar (NASA/ARC)
David J. Lawrence (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Platform/Sensor/Data Set: QuikSCAT/SeaWinds/Wind (1998/02/07-1999/06/25)
Series: Lunar Prospector
Video: SVS1999-0016 *

Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Scientific Visualization Studio