''ISRO, not NASA, deserves credit for discovering water on moon''

In an interesting find out, the young budding writer AMBREEN SALEEM tells that it was India who discovered water first and not NASA

The Indian scientists declared that the Moon Impact Probe (MIP) on Chandrayaan -I discovered water first on November 14, 2008 while the NASA Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) discovered water on moon in March, 2009. 

The Indian scientists were not able to make the news public because of an International Protocol which states that whenever any discovery is made, first it had to be approved by the experts and the discovery has to go through several cross procedures before it could be considered as correct. While NASA thanked India for launching its (M3) which discovered water with Chandrayaan -I, but it completely ignored giving any credit to it for the water discovery. The discovery by our MIP is hardly being talked about, though the credit should have definitely gone to India. 

 NASA is indubitably a fatherly figure in terms of space research while ISRO is relatively a novice. Being a developing nation and almost half the size of USA, India has proved that it is no way behind others. Just a thanksgiving to India for the help given will not do. India discovered water first and it needs to be acknowledged by the International community for the same. It is India's sincerity and policy to abide by the International laws and not its subservience. Hats off to India's discovery that is likely to open newer vistas of space research in the coming decades as well.

The writer is student of Class XI, Delhi Public School