Rank 100 documents Clementine — the 1994 Discovery mission that ended America's post-Apollo lunar silence and hinted at water ice at the south pole. Launched 25 January 1994 from Vandenberg Air Force Base aboard a repurposed Titan IIG ballistic missile, the 424 kg Naval Research Lab spacecraft was a dual-use Ballistic Missile Defense Organization and NASA technology demonstration. Clementine entered lunar orbit 19 February and mapped 38 million km² at 125–250 m per pixel with UV/VIS, NIR, and LIDAR instruments — the first global lunar multispectral survey since Apollo. Data suggested hydrogen enrichment in permanently shadowed craters at both poles, reopening the water-ice question that would drive Lunar Prospector and Artemis planning. Contact was lost 7 May 1994 after leaving lunar orbit for a planned asteroid flyby of Geographos — an antenna fault ended the extended mission early. Wallimilist renders the boxy probe with blue solar panels and gold foil, south polar crater with ice shadow hints, blue marble Earth, vertical CLEMENTINE title, and BMDO→mapper banner exactly as the master PNG dictates — Vandenberg launch kicker, 1994 lunar palette, and curator copy on post-Apollo return and polar ice discovery.