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The Pentagon announced on December 3, 1996, that radar data acquired by the Clementine spacecraft indicated ice in the bottom of a crater on the South Pole of the Moon. Although it is never lit by the Sun, there are a few images of the South Pole available for viewing.
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www.nrl.navy.mil/clementine/
www.nrl.navy.mil/clementine/
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NRL was responsible for the design, manufacture, integration, and mission execution of the Clementine spacecraft for the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization. During its two-month orbit of the Moon in 1994, Clementine captured 1.8 million images of the Moon's surface.
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www.nrl.navy.mil/clementine/clib
www.nrl.navy.mil/clementine/clib
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This page has links to the Clementine Spacecraft that visited the moon. ... Clementine Spacecraft was launched on 25 January 1994 at Vandenberg AFB aboard a Titan IIG rocket. It was planned to fly the asteroid Geographos.
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www.aerospaceguide.net/spaceprobe/clementinespacecraft....
www.aerospaceguide.net/spaceprobe/clementinespacecraft.html
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The Clementine Spacecraft ... Clementine was the first of a new class of small spacecraft to enable long-duration deep space missions at low cost using lightweight satellite technology. Along with its primary mission to test this new technology, it returned valuable lunar data to the scientific community.
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www.lpi.usra.edu/expmoon/clementine/clementine.html
www.lpi.usra.edu/expmoon/clementine/clementine.html
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Clementine was a joint project between the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization and NASA. The objective of the mission was to test sensors and spacecraft components under extended exposure to the space environment and to make scientific observations of the Moon and the near ... [Image of Clementine Spacecraft]
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nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/clementine.html
nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/clementine.html
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The spacecraft was launched on January 25, 1994 at 16:34 and the nominal lunar mission lasted until the spacecraft left lunar orbit on May 3. The image of the full Moon at the top of the page was taken on orbit 100, 15 March 1994 at 00:01:26 UT from 2200 Km by the Star Tracker camera. ... [Clementine spacecraft diagram]
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nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/clementine1.html
nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/clementine1.html
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Moon Image: The Clementine Spacecraft ... The Clementine mission was undertaken by the Department of Defense to test new technologies for defense and cilivian applications. The spacecraft was launched on January 25, 1994, and then began mapping the Moon.
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www.solarviews.com/cap/craft/clem.htm
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The Clementine Spacecraft ... The Clementine spacecraft was built at the US Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC and carried sensors, attitude control systems and software designed and built by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). The USAF supplied advanced lightweight composite structures and the...
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astrogeology.usgs.gov/Projects/Clementine/nasaclem/spac...
astrogeology.usgs.gov/Projects/Clementine/nasaclem/spacecraft/spacecraft.html
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Britannica online encyclopedia article on Clementine (spacecraft), robotic U.S. spacecraft that orbited and observed all regions of the Moon over a two-month period in 1994 for purposes of scientific research and in-space testing of equipment developed primarily for national defense. ... Clementine, launched on January 25,
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www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/1076465/Clementine
www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/1076465/Clementine
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