High-Level Project Summary
We developed a website which demonstrates seismological activities over the years on the moon, their magnitudes and locations on the surface. It is interactive as the moonquakes appear based on the input time(based on the exact time, it appears on different coordinates and with different magnitudes according to the data), and the map overall is a good visualization of the matter as the moon can be observed from different angles, and the magnitudes are color-coded. The project is important because it analyzes the given data successfully and betters viewers perception of the moonquakes.
Link to Final Project
Link to Project "Demo"
Detailed Project Description
We have mapped a picture of the moon on a sphere. The seismological activities are displayed by tori - the ring radius of the torus increases with time, and the pipe radius decreases, which demonstrates the epicenter and the seismic waves. The data provides information about different years' moonquakes, so you can choose the date using a slider and watch the according seismic activity. The beginning pipe radius and color is depended on the magnitude - the bigger the magnitude the bigger the radius, and the tori with magnitudes 0 - 1.5 are yellow, 1.5 - 2 are orange, and 2 - 3 are red. The main benefit of the project is its understandability - it will better the understanding and perception of the matter of both - professionals and non-professionals. In the future it would be beneficial to add some features, like an overall animation of all seismic events, camera-shakes during moonquakes, rotation of the moon, longitude-latitude grid on the moon, and information-display during the moonquakes. We used Vite, Three.JS, python, Dat.gui, Netlify.
Space Agency Data
We used the Apollo Passive Seismic Experiment Expanded Event Catalog Online from the resources file. We read the data from the file, and constructed the location, date, and magnitudes of the seismic events based on that. Also we used Scientific Visualization Studio Computer Generated Imagery (CGI) Moon Kit - we mapped the image of the moon onto the sphere and created a globe.
Hackathon Journey
Our Space Apps experience was very captivating and exciting. We had to learn Three.js, which was completely new to all of us. It took a lot of research, but we explored some interesting concepts and tried to integrate them in our project. We had some setbacks, but we dealt with them by coming up with different approaches. We tried to be creative and display the data in a way that would be highly understandable and perceptional. All in all, it was a great learning experience.
References
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oFvqLfRnsU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YK1Sw_hnm58
https://threejs.org/docs/index.html#manual/en/introduction/Creating-a-scene
https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/p1639ay-goodss-160930.jpg
Tags
#software #moon #moonquake #siesmicActivity #web