===== Independant reviews =====

Beware ! Are only mentionned here the main articles about VMA. A search engine like Google, Yahoo, Allthe web...) using words as "VMA", "Virtual Moon Atlas" plus "review" can indicate you numerous reviews realized by dynamic amateur astronomers associations. 

|May 2006|VMA is presented in the professional Bulletin of the "Lunar and Planetary Institute" of Houston.|
|February 2005|The french amateur astronomers magazine [[http://www.astronomy.com/home.asp|Astronomie magazine"]] presents in its February 2005 issue a paper by Erwan Tanguy presenting VMA version 2.1 and says that "it's an interesting free software and even remarkable".|
|May 10th 2003|[[http://www.skyandtelescope.com/|"SKY and TELESCOPE"]] presents, in its June 2003 issue, a Gary Seronik article ("Three for the Moon" page 54) comparing two others lunar mapping softwares with VMA and which is also very positive for VMA.|
|April 15th 2003|[[http://www.astronomy.com/home.asp|"Astronomy magazine"]] presents, in its May 2003 issue, a Richard Bartlett's article comparing two others lunar mapping softwares with VMA and which is very positive for VMA.|
|February 2003|[[http://www.lunar-observers.org/software-reviews.html|Comparative review by Chuck Taylor]], from [[http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lunar-observing/|"Lunar observing Yahoo group"]] presenting pluses and minuses of the three principal lunar software on the market including VMA.|
|January 2003|American magazine [[http://www.skyandtelescope.com/|"SKY and TELESCOPE"]] briefly presents VMA in its article "Hot Products for 2003".|
|December 2002|VMA Review on [[http://www.astrosurf.com/lombry/software2.htm|Thierry Lombry site]]|
|November 2002|French magazine [[http://www.cieletespace.com/|"CIEL & ESPACE"]] quotes VMA in a remarkable article about " Apollo 17 " mission.|
|October 2002|VMA review on Rod Mollise [[http://skywatch.brainiac.com/sw91002.pdf|"SKYWATCH"]] publication.|
|September 10th 2002|[[http://savar.astronomie.ch/volume5/page2/avl.html|Article]] by Jacques Zufferey in the SAVAR bulletin (in French).|