MooooooN

Taipei | Make a Moonquake Map!

Awards & Nominations

MooooooN has received the following awards and nominations. Way to go!

Global Nominee

((Moonquakes))

High-Level Project Summary

According to NASA, the moon has at least four different types of moonquakes, including deep moonquakes, meteorite impacts, thermal moonquakes, and shallow moonquakes. At present, it is impossible to know exactly what causes the moonquakes and how to prove that the moonquakes happened. The Mooooom team uses Apollo seismometers data and integrates the data into a website with 3D models. We hope to provide people with knowledge and experience through a user-friendly website. We also hope that scientists can use this website to easily see the time of moonquakes.

Link to Final Project

https://polite-forest-0a5ee9a10.2.azurestaticapps.net/

Link to Project "Demo"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9T3BTMYE8w

Detailed Project Description

We analyzed and visualized more than 10,000 pieces of data collected by Apollo seismic experiments from 1969 to 1977. The user can interact differently with the 3D models of the moon and the Apollo seismometers on the website. The slider is used to set the time to show the moonquake location in the 3D moon model. The user can also see the location of the Apollo seismometers. If you click on the epicenter, the details of the moonquake will pop-up. We imported 3D Javascript Library - Three.js in frontend framework Vue3 and implemented it into our website. We keep our local repository in sync with GitHub to ensure the collaboration.

Space Agency Data

Our team converts the NASA Apollo seismometers CSV data into readable information, such as epicenter, magnitude, origin time and depth. In the future, if Apollo continues to operate and send back messages, we will continue to update the website and model.

Hackathon Journey

We are a team from Taiwan and members from diverse fields. Since Taiwan has a long history of earthquakes causing severe damages over the years, that is why we are interested in this challenge “Make a moonquake map!”. First, we studied a lot of articles related to moonquakes. Those articles were long and in English, we spent much time to understand it. Then, we brainstormed together. Our team came up with many good ideas to visualize the moonquake map. Lastly, we learned that teamwork is very important for the challenge. Although it was hard to complete our project in a short time, eventually we did it. We successfully created the interactive Moonquakes website.