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# Welcome to PyMoonDB
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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.

PyMoonDB is a python client to the Application Program Interface made available by the MoonDB project.

# 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


__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
Lunar and Planetary Science Conference
2019, pp. 2996
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Frigeri, A., Lehnert, K. A., Ji, P.  The Python interface to the MoonDB geochemical and petrological database
European Planetary Science Congress
2019