An eternal lunar vault for humanity
This prototype 5 cm disc shows what you can expect from Sanctuary. Explore by zooming down to individual pixels. We hope you'll find something interesting.
You'll find stories about fundamental physics, space voyages, planetary calendars, the mystic cord, Type I errors and randomess, music, art and math. The discs that will be sent to the Moon will be 9 cm in diameter and have about 3× as many pixels as this sample.
Sanctuary is a time capsule of information art that will be sent to the Moon. It will be carried to the Moon on the XL-1 lander the module engineered by Masten. It will land on the South Pole of the Moon.
Sanctuary is a modern interpretation of the Universal Elements and Platonic geometry. It draws motivation and inspiration from previous projects to commemorate human knowledge and individuality, such as the original Drake message, Arecibo messages, Pioneer plaque, and Voyager's Golden Record.
Images, information art and text are seamlessly composed on a giant canvas of pixels stored in 10 sapphire discs.
The discs are permanent but life is fleeting. Each disc will be accompanied by a custom-designed layer of hand-written paper. What would you write?
The Sanctuary collection will contain fully sequenced and assembled female and male genomes. Our biological recipe.
The discs contain submissions from people of all ages from across the globe.
The Fly With Us To The Moon collection are drawings by children undergoing treatment at hospitals in France. Each child drew the spacecraft that they would take to go to the Moon.
The Sanctuary team is a collective of researchers and artists from international institutions and diverse fields of study.
We are active in public outreach at the interface of science and art.
Add value and support the Sanctuary Project.
We have up to 7 discs for partner content. Speak to the future by etching a disc, leaving your ink, or making a game out of the pixels.
We also offer the option of having your message or brand appear on the outer casing of the Sanctuary cubesat that will be mounted on ALINA.Once on the Moon, the rovers will film the container.
▲ Sanctuary cubesat
▲ Outward-facing plaque on cubesat
Contact us at info@sanctuaryproject.eu or use the contact form below to learn about opportunities of how to be part of the collection.
listen: there's a hell
of a good universe next door;
let's go
—ee cummings