# 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]
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