Sittampoondi is a small village in Namakkal district, Tamil Nadu India.

The village is fed by irrigation from the river Kaveri, 3 mi (4.8 km) away.

Gounders are the dominant community people in this area and most of them are farmers.

Geologists from Periyar University, Salem; the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchi; the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and the National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad, "concurred" that rocks from Sittampoondi and Kunnamalai had similar properties to the soil on the Moon.

S. Anbazhagan, Professor and Head of the Department of Geology, Periyar University, said: "We had done spectral studies on the lunar soil and we discovered its equivalent at Sittampoondi in 2004 when I was working in the Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay.