Dr. Bonney had particularly high praise for the Defense Department's recent Clementine mission to the Moon, the first American lunar mission since 1972.
This mode provides the satellite imagery for the Moon, provided by the Clementine mission.
The BMDO and NASA launched the Clementine mission in 1994, and Lunar Prospector in 1998.
The topography of the Moon has been measured by the methods of laser altimetry and stereo image analysis, most recently from data obtained during the Clementine mission.
Spectra taken of this crater during the Clementine mission were used to perform mineral mapping.
Geographos was to be explored by the U.S.'s Clementine mission; however, a malfunctioning thruster ended the mission before it could approach the asteroid.
Examination of images from the Clementine mission appear to show that parts of the crater rim are permanently illuminated by sunlight (except during Lunar eclipses).
A 1994 bistatic radar experiment performed during the Clementine mission suggested the presence of water ice around the south pole.
One attempt to overcome the above problems with transient phenomena reports was made during the Clementine mission by a network of amateur astronomers.
The topography of the basin was mapped in its entirety for the first time using altimeter data and the analysis of stereo image pairs taken during the Clementine mission.