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  Python MoonDB
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![Apollo 12 NASA image AS12-47-6932](docs/source/images/AS12-47-6932.jpg)
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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.

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__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.
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# Installation
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Within the directory where setup.py is placed, type:
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pip install -e .
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To use moondb module, simply do::
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    >>> import moondb
    >>> s_12023 = moondb.get_specimens(sc=['12023'])[0]


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# How to cite MoonDB and python-moondb


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#### python-moondb
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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

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#### __MoonDB__
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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