# Welcome to PyMoonDB ![Apollo 12 NASA image AS12-47-6932](docs/source/images/AS12-47-6932.jpg) MoonDB is a NASA-funded quality-controlled data system that will preserve, digitize and curate lunar geochemical and petrological data and their associated sample metadata and analytical metadata. __python-moondb__ is a python module which creates an interface to the Application Program Interface made available by the MoonDB project. __python-moondb__ is being developed at [IAPS/INAF](http://www.iaps.inaf.it) in Rome, Italy. # Installation Within the directory where setup.py is placed, type: pip install -e . To use moondb module, simply do:: >>> import moondb >>> s_12023 = moondb.get_specimens(sc=['12023'])[0] # How to cite MoonDB and python-moondb #### python-moondb Frigeri, A., Lehnert, K. A., Ji, P. [The Python interface to the MoonDB geochemical and petrological database](https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EPSC-DPS2019/EPSC-DPS2019-1729.pdf) European Planetary Science Congress, Geneve - Switzerland, September, 2019 #### __MoonDB__ Lehnert, K. A., Markey, K., Ji, P., Cai, Y., Hodges, K., Mercer, C., Walker, J. D., Ash, J., Evans, C. and Zeigler, R. [MoonDB: 50 Years of Lunar Sample Data Ready for the Data Revolution](http://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2019/pdf/2996.pdf) Lunar and Planetary Science Conference 2019, pp. 2996