SUST_IRENIC

Sylhet | Make a Moonquake Map!

SELENA

High-Level Project Summary

We created a website called Selena. We can see the locations of different types of moonquakes and the time series of the magnitudes of moonquakes with all the related information about moonquakes. Most people aren’t aware of the events on the moon. By using this website users will be able to experience a simulation of moonquakes which will help them in their research and also give a realistic feel to them. As the world is getting un-habitable, the moon can be an option to colonize. Before colonizing we have to know about the events that can damage our colonization. So to have knowledge beforehand is important. Ours is a unique website consisting of information and data related to Moonquake.

Link to Final Project

https://github.com/KongkaMozumderSUST/selena

Link to Project "Demo"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XEJCcbW2Zs

Detailed Project Description

To solve the “Make a Moonquake Map” Challenge we made a web application. We named the application inspired by the name of the greek moon god Selena.

We have created a 3D interactive globe of the moon. Where we can zoom in and zoom out the globe by clicking on the buttons given below as well as using our mouse pointers. The globe continuously rotates, we can stop and rotate the moon manually using a mouse. Here we can see that we have the positions of landing sites of Apollo lunar modules plotted on our globe. When we click the points we would get their latitudes and longitudes on the popover.

In the 3D globe, we have mainly inserted pinpoint locations of different kinds of moonquakes. These are Deep moonquakes, shallow moonquakes, and quakes caused by meteorite hits and artificial impacts. We have put categorized information about the quakes on the side of the screen. When we hover over the points of the quakes it shows the latitude and longitude of the quake position. We are also trying to use the Obspy package to generate time series from the seismic data we got from the JAXA API. We show this information with a graph. There is also an option “Learn Moonquake” where we can find every information related to moonquakes.

Deep Moonquake:

Shallow Moonquake:

Meteorite Moonquake:

Artificial Impact:

Our main goal is to change the perception of people about the moon. We can demonstrate and make people visualize the moonquake. We will be able to describe different kinds of moonquake behaviors and places where frequently moonquakes happen. We are working with the seismic data of apollo 11-17.

Around the world, there are billions of people living within the “danger zone” of earthquakes. These natural phenomena are terrifying and unpredictable.

Our beloved moon wrestles with a similar problem, but obviously, they’re called moonquakes. They got registered up to 5.5 on the Richter scale and can last for hours. According to Neal Armstrong during the moonquake, the moon was ringing like a bell.

The Moon is the only Celestial Object besides Earth ever visited by humans. By studying the Moon, scientists can piece together Earth's origin story. So astronauts carry out expenditures to the moon with irreplaceable tools and instruments. we need to make this quake-proof.

As the earth is becoming more and more un-habitable we need to seek other habitation and the moon can be a viable option. But first, we need to know all its natural factors including the frequent moonquakes.

If we ever decide to colonize our nearest celestial companion, these quakes could prove to be quite a problem, so understanding them is crucial.

We created this website using Next.js and WebGL framework Three.js. We have also used Obspy to create time series of seismic events. For this, we used Python to read data from JAXA API. We have deployed this website in the cloud hosting service Vercel. For future implementation, we will be needing hardware requirements like a VR headset and also a platform with a vibration motor integrated.

Tools

NextJs
ThreeJs WebGL
VSCode Editor
ObsPy

Our site is running on: https://moonquake-map.vercel.app/

Space Agency Data

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

We used Moon Kit from this website to create the moon with displacement map

PDS: Bundle Information (nasa.gov):

From the Apollo Passive Seismic Experiment Expanded Event Catalog, we got the seismic data received by Apollo 11-17. We used those data to get the latitude, longitude, and all relevant data of different seismic events such as deep moonquakes, shallow moonquakes, meteorites, artificial impacts, etc. We used those data and visualize them in a 3D globe on our website.

https://www.darts.isas.jaxa.jp/pub/apollo/: By using this JAXA site we get the magnetic tapes to send the apollo lunar modules back to earth. We used python modules such as Obspy to transform the binary files to time-series to visualize the seismic events more clearly.

Hackathon Journey

The hackathon journey was awesome for our team. We arrived at the venue at 6:30 AM and started working on polishing our project. and started preparing our videos for submission. We got motivated by watching people come up with amazing solutions and developing amazing projects. Got to meet a lot of new inspiring people and bonded with my teammates more than ever.