Selene's Compass

https://jane2210.github.io/selenes-compass/frontpage.html

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vTkUydbaOTmscLWBa3mpQdIdlX4rJfI__Ae8icElmHmsjIo09qZG_7v9QVWbajiOGOZgH9z7qZnjoGo/pub?start=true&loop=true&delayms=5000

Selene's Compass is primarily an open, accessible web application that allows users to revisit historical moonquakes from the past. It provides seismic data, which are plotted on graphs along with additional information. For the sake of simplicity, entering the front page will greet you with numerous hyperlinks. This will take you to the aforementioned moonquakes, labeled by name and date. Each hyperlink contains a model, strenuously developed in Blender to replay the incident on a three dimensional scale.

Selene's compass uses mapping from Geopandas to display latitudinal and longitudinal coordinates from NASA Planetary Data Systems information. It uses three.js to present gltf files and animations from Blender. We compiled our web app using a Github domain. We used NASA information to create the 3D surface of the moon, and Apollo data for our PSE lever 3D Models

Our web application reaps numerous benefits, one being it's accessibility. Students, teachers, and individuals at home can access tedious CSV file databases, but displayed in an easy to understand way. By analyzing this data, scientists can also better understand the state of our own planet's quakes, and possibly interstellar bodies. And just to quench your curiosity, it can also be a fun visit to learn more about the history of our faithful moon. We hope to set one of the pillars which will later build into further outer space research. With a click of a few buttons, you'll be reliving that one moonquake in 1979, or maybe even 2003! Wishing everyone that visits our site a wonderful time.

Our data is entirely comprised from NASA.

https://pds.nasa.gov/ds-view/pds/viewBundle.jsp?identifier=urn%3Anasa%3Apds%3Aapollo_seismic_event_catalog&version=1.0

• Downloaded CSV files for mapping graphs
• Downloaded CSV files for creating tables

https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/details.cgi?aid=4720

• Downloaded gltf color files to wrap around moon model
• Downloaded gltf displacement files to wrap around moon model

https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/HamishALSEP.html

• Remodeled 2D PSE levers into 3D models

After weeks of buoyant anticipation, our team dived in headfirst into our challenge. Inspired by the creativity of the prompt, we took our time to carefully plan out each individual aspect of our submission. From the intricate data, to the striking presentation, our team has poured our heart and soul into Selene's Compass. Without knowing how to code, we took up this mantle determined to brush through any challenges in our way. Our original lack of coding experience proved to be a major setback at first, but as we persevered, the lines of code became second nature to us, along with the vast arrays of data. Fresh of the Space Apps Challenge, we come out as future scientists, analysts, and perhaps even astronauts. We've been given the opportunity to think like the leaders of tomorrow, and we'd like to thank everyone who helped made this happen.

Our github repository:

https://github.com/Jane2210/selenes-compass.git

With data from:

• https://pds.nasa.gov/ds-view/pds/viewBundle.jsp?identifier=urn%3Anasa%3Apds%3Aapollo_seismic_event_catalog&version=1.0
• https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/details.cgi?aid=4720
• https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/HamishALSEP.html
• https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20200001816/downloads/20200001816.pdf

Documentation:

• https://threejs.org/docs/index.html#manual/en/introduction/Creating-a-scene
• https://geopandas.org/en/stable/docs/user_guide/mapping.html
• https://plotly.com/graphing-libraries/

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