What Is Lunar Codex? Here's Everything You Need To Know

What is Lunar Codex? here's everything you need to know

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The Lunar Codex is a global initiative led by Samuel Peralta, a Canadian physicist and art collector

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The collection of varied digitised art will be sent to the moon as a lasting record of human creativity

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Lunar Codex is stored on memory cards or laser etched on NanoFiche, a 21st-century update on film-based microfiche

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This initiative as a message to future generations to remind them that war, pandemics and economic crises did not stop people from creating works of art

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Art gallery on Moon’s South Pole

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The collection of art is gathered from 30,000 artists, writers, filmmakers and musicians from 157 countries

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The first such capsule is known as the Orion collection, which has already flown around the moon when it launched on the Orion spacecraft

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A series of lunar landers will take the Lunar Codex capsules to various destinations in craters at the moon’s South Pole and a lunar plain called Sinus Viscositatis

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In 1969, when Apollo 12 mission was launched, the spacecraft carried a small ceramic tile bearing line drawing from Andy Warhol

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