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

BY - rivanshi rakhrai

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

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

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

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

Art gallery on Moon’s South Pole

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

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

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

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