High-Level Project Summary
Our project aims to optimize landing on the moon by creating an interactive 3D model of the moonterrain with simultaneous representation of seismic activity occurring at it's surfacebased on the opted time frame projected using eye-catching animations. We have used a moonquake map because the moonquake map on the webpage displays the seismic activity that had occurred on the moon. We aim to solve this by using HTML, CSS and JavaScript to build the Front-End, Blender to obtain the 3D model of the moon, Verge 3D to export into HTML file, GLOBE GS to make interactive 3D models. The CSV is converted to JSON using a third party tool and is used . The same project can be done for other bodies
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Detailed Project Description
Our project aims to optimize landing on the moon by creating an interactive 3-D model of the moon terrain with simultaneous representation of seismic activity occurring at it's surface based on the opted time frame projected using eye-catching animations.
It creates the landing of space ships safer by greater extent.
We have achieved our task by building a working model. The front end uses HTML, CSS and JavaScript. We have constructed a 3D model of the moon using Blender, Globe GS to make a 3Dsphere that is masked with different images (in our case a 3D Moon Model). This model can be marked with points.
To familiarize space scientists and caution them about the possible real-time seismographic activity on the lunar surface as well as past occurrences of the same so as to increase success rates lunar surface landing missions.
This can also be used as a tool for space enthusiasts to gain acquaintance with the concepts of lunar seismic activities .
Space Agency Data
The seismic data has been obtained from the NASA space apps website under the resource section.
This data has been obtained from the NAKAMURA satellite over the span of few years. This data has been fed to Java Script which is further plotted on the rendered 3d model and displayed on the web page.
Hackathon Journey
We would compare our journey to a roller-coaster, with its own ups and downs, however we kept our chins high and tackled all our problems as a team until the last minute.
This has been an eye-opening experience and has encouraged us to take up many such hackathons in the future. We would like to extend our hearty gratitude to Mr. Sundar MN and the other subject matter experts who took time out of their pockets to give us invaluable advice.
Lastly we would like to thank the volunteers and staff members of JAIN (deemed to be university) school of Sciences, Bangalore to create a hospitable environment for us.
References
Satellite Data: https://pds-geosciences.wustl.edu/lunar/urn-nasa-pds-apollo_seismic_event_catalog/data/
Acquiring Moon Map: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/details.cgi?aid=4720
.csv to .json converter: https://products.aspose.com/cells/python-java/conversion/xlsx-to-json/
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#moon #nasa #quake #hackathon #nosleep #life #space #moonquake #garbha #gandhijayanthi #lalbahadurshastri