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NASA on  23 september 2009 revealed that India's maiden lunar mission Chandrayaan-I had traced  water  molecules on the moon's surface. India's own Moon Impact Probe (MIP) on board the country's maiden unmanned lunar craft had detected evidence of water on the moon in a finding confirmed by US space agency Nasa which too had an instrument onboard Chandrayaan-I. The Nasa meanwhile thanked Isro for enabling the discovery of water on moon through Chandrayaan-I. "We want to thank Isro for making the discovery possible. The moon till now was thought to be a very dry surface with lot of rocks," NASA director Jim Green told reporters in Washington. In Bangalore, a beaming Isro chief G Madhavan Nair said the MIP while descending from Chandrayaan-I to the moon surface about a fortnight after it was launched in October picked up strong signals of water particles. Nair's remark has triggered speculation whether an Indian space mission was the first to di...