NASA officials are doing their best to ignore rumors that the Lunar Prospector spacecraft has detected water on the moon's surface. Alan Binder of the Lunar Research Institute in Gilroy, California, and the chief scientist for the mission, acknowledged a Houston Chronicle report that scientists are "buzzing" with speculation that Prospector has found water on the moon.

But his response Thursday was, "The only advice I can give you is don't believe the rumors either way."

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