Astronomy Picture of the Day . Water Discovered on the Moon . ... 28.09.2009 . ... Credit: ISRO / NASA / JPL-Caltech / USGS / Brown U. Explanation: Water has been discovered on the surface of the Moon. No lakes have been found, but rather NASA's Moon Mineralogy Mapper aboard India's new Chandrayaan-1 lunar orbiter radios back that parts of the Moon's surface absorb a very specific color of light identified previously only with water. ... Publications with keywords: Moon - water . ...