A NASA space probe launched in 1998 January that went into a 100-km-high polar orbit around the Moon, later reduced to as low as 15 km, from which it mapped the Moon’s surface composition and measured its gravitational field. Data from the probe’s neutron spectrometer instrument suggested the existence of large subsurface ice deposits at the lunar poles. The mission ended in 1999 July when Lunar Prospector was deliberately crashed into an area near the Moon’s south pole.
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraftDisplay.do?id=1998-001A NASA information page.