# Welcome to PyMoonDB
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.
PyMoonDB is a python client to the Application Program Interface made available by the MoonDB project.
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
[https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EPSC-DPS2019/EPSC-DPS2019-1729.pdf] 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 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 Lunar and Planetary Science Conference 2019, pp. 2996
python-moondb Frigeri, A., Lehnert, K. A., Ji, P. The Python interface to the MoonDB geochemical and petrological database European Planetary Science Congress 2019