The First Library on a Celestial Body (30 Million Page Archive Being Sent to the Moon)

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The First Library on a Celestial Body (via Archmisson.org)

The Lunar Library represents the first in a series of lunar archives from the Arch Mission Foundation, designed to preserve the records of our civilization for up to billions of years. It is installed in the SpaceIL “Beresheet” lunar lander, scheduled to land on the Moon in April of 2019.

The Lunar Library contains a 30 million page archive of human history and civilization, covering all subjects, cultures, nations, languages, genres, and time periods.

The Library is housed within a 100 gram nanotechnology device that resembles a 120mm DVD. However it is actually composed of 25 nickel discs, each only 40 microns thick, that were made for the Arch Mission Foundation by NanoArchival.

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Overview Document (86 pages; PDF)

Thirty-million-page backup of humanity headed to moon aboard Israeli lander (via CNET)

The AMF has already signed on to an additional planned moon mission, with startup Astrobotic, to send another Lunar Library installment to the moon in the next few years. There are also plans in the works to send archives to Mars, LaGrange points around Earth and deep underground caves on our planet.

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The digitized layers include a full copy of Wikipedia, more than 25,000 books and data for understanding over 5,000 languages.

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