High-Level Project Summary
Seismic events, recorded by the EASEP and ALSEP instruments, have been plotted in a 3D visualization tool. It shows the different seismic events collected between 1969 and 1976. Studying this events are important, as they rely information about the moons internal structure. Plus, it shows that data is best analyzed visually.
Detailed Project Description
The project shows some of the data of the seismic activity recorded in the moon in the 1970s. It shows four different types of moonquakes, deep, shallow, vibration by meteorite and artificial vibration. Each one is colored in a legend, which works also as a filter, so the user can hide or show categories of interest.
At any point, the events shown are for one specific year, which can be changed in the slider at the bottom. There is data from 1969 to 1976. The user can hover over any point and a pop up will show additional information about the hovered event. The user may click the event to get a closer look, where more info may be found about the event or objects around the moon.
Space Agency Data
The data used was from the Planetary Data System. Some documents from the "Apollo Passive Seismic Experiment Expanded Event Catalog". We used the data for deep, shallow moonquakes and artificial impacts, to extract the latitudes, longitudes and dates. A table of data was created joining the three tables, with an added column to indicate the type of moonquake. No table had the same properties as each other, so this joined table had a lost of empty space, but the important aspect was to have the position of each event.
Given we had these different types of moonquakes and dates information, we decided to design a web app that could position each event with a different color for the type of moonquake. Also, another filter would be applied to consider the year in which the seismic event occurred.
Hackathon Journey
It was fun, a bit challenging in some aspects, but fun. We learned we need to decide a bit sooner on the project, we were still debating about the topic to be chosen on Saturday.
What inspired us is that none of us knew that the moon has moonquakes, so we considered this a chance to study these events. We divided the requisites needed in between team members, trying to exploit skills from each member.
References
https://pds-geosciences.wustl.edu/missions/apollo/seismic_event_catalog.htm
https://slidesgo.com/theme/us-first-moon-landing
Tags
#moonquakes, #3d, #apollo, #data