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25 years ago today, NASA's Lunar Prospector spacecraft was successfully launched, and went on to orbit the Moon for almost 19 months to map its surface composition and to look for polar ice. This image from Lunar Prospector data shows thorium concentrations on the Moon's surface.
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Buster McNutt
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Buster McNutt
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What methods were used to map composition? Are there maps for all the other elements?

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