High-Level Project Summary
We developed a website, which shows information about the recorded seismometers during the apollo missions. An interactive 3d map of the moon shows where there were moonquakes. Which are plotted from the data registered in the gagnepian_2006_catalog. We solve the challenge by plotting the detected seismic events on a 3d map of the moon. This is important since it allows us to determine the areas on the moon with the most seismic events
Link to Final Project
Link to Project "Demo"
Detailed Project Description
The project shows information related to the seismometers used in apollo to collect information about the geological activity of the moon. This information is shown in a simpler manner so that everyday people can understand their use.
We made an interactive 3d map of the moon that plots with color points where the moonquakes were registered. The benefit of this is that as it is a 3d globe, people can see the exact location of where the data was recorded, in this way more accurate studies of the areas of interest can be carried out. We expected to be able to show all the points where quakes occurred and that when looking for a specific location, it would direct us to the exact location on the 3D map and show the magnitude of the quake recorded in that area.
To carry out the project the following tools and libraries were used:
- "@react-three/drei": "9.32.7"
- "@react-three/fiber": "8.8.7"
- "styled-components": "5.3.6"
- "three":"0.145.0"
- "GitHub"
- "python"
- "HTML"
- "CSS"
Link to our github repository: https://github.com/JosePabloPonce/Nasa-Space-Challenge-2022---MAKE-A-MOONQUAKE-MAP-
Space Agency Data
For the project we use the data provided by NASA from the following pages:
From this page https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/details.cgi?aid=4720 we extracted the texture of the moon to be able to graph it in 3d in the project.
From this page https://pds-geosciences.wustl.edu/lunar/urn-nasa-pds-apollo_seismic_event_catalog/data/ we extracted information from the gagnepian_2006_catalog.csv file to be able to graph the coordinates where there was seismic activity on the moon.
Hackathon Journey
Our experience
"It was a very fun and interesting experience because I share with people from other countries and let us complete challenges with different approaches" Jose Pablo Ponce
"Joyful, interesting, and challenging. An experience where I could share with people around the globe for benefit of space exploration" George Luis Thomas
What we learn
We learned about seismometers and how they work.
We learned web development technologies that let us show the moon in an interactive and user-friendly manner.
We learned how data processing, data visualization, and deploy a webpage to present the information.
What inspired us
To be able to create a moon map that enables us to show data collected from scientific experiments carried out on the moon's surface.
The approach
- We designed a sketch of what the website will look like.
- We dived into teams to work more efficiently
- We did periodically meetings to check the advances
We would like to thank the experts of the challenge that were present in the chat that clarifies our concerns.
References
Resources used in the project:
Tags
#Software #MoonQuake #MoonQuakeMap #Moon #3DGlobe