Why did NASA design the Lunar Prospector spacecraft to crash into the Moon?

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OBu · Answer 1 · 2020-03-26T03:38:18+0000

It was designed to perform low polar orbit investigation in the moon. The mission ended on July 31, 1999, after scientists deliberately aimed Lunar Prospector to crash into a permanently shadowed area of a crater near the lunar South Pole.

Why did NASA design the Lunar Prospector spacecraft to crash into the Moon?

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