Team Explorer

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githublink: https://github.com/Nishijannat/Moonquake

There has been always a confusion!! Why we should go to moon and spend so much money! Does going to moon mean only just conquering it as a symbol of glory or is it just an achievement like reaching the peak of a mountain and nothing more??

To realize the answer you have to understand the value of knowledge, and you should be interested in knowing yourself, from where you came!

Unlocking the mystery of universe means going back to its creation! Same goes for our solar system, our earth! And her best friend is the moon, knowing moon unlocks the doors to know our planet!

Again, there is an interesting fact, as we know, moon has a gravitational impact on earth, and many natural events happen due to this, a something is happening to moon which may affect this impact less or more! The moon seems to be shrinking. It has shrunk by more than 150 feet (50 meters) during the previous several hundred million years.

So let’s join the dot!

Knowing moon, what’s inside it and how it formed, needs research on its surface and inner core! Again that shrinking event causes moonquakes and instability in moon’s core. Without this, there are several reasons causing moonquakes! Studying those help knowing the moon, what’s inside this and more! So stepping on moon’s surface is much more than we know! These are very simple, easy but important knowledge! We are unware of these simple facts, but there are data we can easily find. As Astronauts placed the seismometers instruments on the lunar surface during the Apollo 11, 12, 14, 15, and 16 missions. The Apollo 11 seismometer operated only for three weeks, but the four remaining recorded 28 shallow moonquakes – the type expected to be produced by these faults – from 1969 to 1977.

But there is a problem! The data from those stations, are in a form in the database that only experts will understand them!

So, here we are, took the challenge to make those data visually simple with necessary information, so that anybody exploring them can get the data easily like we get the earthquake data from a random live earthquake map website

That’s why we are developing an app, web based platform that plots the seismic events of the moon, for users to interact and learn with an interactive 3-D digital moon globe. These events are detected by the EASEP and ALSEP instruments deployed on the earth surface by various moon missions. 

Through this project, we can understand how the moon surface behaves during moonquakes and many more things.

We are at very initial stages and just made it to visualise the data on 2D. the next task is to make an app or interactive web platform.

Type of Source quake in moon:

• Natural source quake originated from the moon core
• Quake due to the collision with asteroids
• Man made quake due to spacecraft landing

Our main source is: Early Apollo Surface Experiments Package (EASEP) Furthermore, the more advanced Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP) modules were deployed on the Apollo 12, 14, 15, and 16 missions.Our data contains all the Passive Seismic Experiment (PSE) data from the Apollo 11, 12, 14, 15 and 16 sites, and the parts of 'Passive Listening Mode' data of LSPE (Lunar Surface Profiling Experiment) and LSG (Lunar Surface Gravimeter) experiment performed at Apollo 17 site. Also, other resources from JAXA, USGS will be used as primary source.

The Active Seismic Experiment was complementary to the Passive Seismic Experiments, as Active Experiment to study the local area and create its own explosions and Passive Experiment was designed to study the whole Moon. The devices are set by various Apollo missions consisting of power systems and other parts transmitting data to earth’s receivers. 

The data set includes all of the seismic data recorded at five of the six ALSEP (Apollo Lunar Surface Experiment Package) stations set up by the U.S. astronauts during the Apollo Missions, 1969-1972, and continued operation till 1977. It also includes data from all the other experiments from all ALSEP stations after March 1, 1976.

There are several types of data set such as Special event tape: — This tape contains data of specially selected deep moonquake, major meteoroid impact, all shallow moonquake and all artificial impact events.

Other Tools and resource that will be used:

• Matlab
• HTML, CSS, BOOTSTRAP, WEBGL
• NumPy, Matplotlib
• Django, Websocket
• NASA, JAXA RESOURCES, USGS

Features:

• User will be able to 3D visualization of seismic event on moon surface.
• Time series data analysis of seismic events of moon will be displayed
• Moon surface characteristics will be visualized.
• Reason of moonquake
• Magnitude ,time and Sound effect for quake on moon surface will be provided
• Zone wise color variant 3D representation
• Animations representing quakes
• Filtering timewise event
• Aftereffect of moonquakes
• Theories of moon formation

There have been some very interesting events, both man-made and natural on the moon which gave us very mind blowing ideas about the moon’s behaviour when it faces quakes which is very different from moonquakes, such as the duration and type of quake. Again, the moon's internal structure is getting cold which is a reason of earthquake . Studying the data sent from those devices on the moon's surface helped us to unveil the quake mysteries of moon . Again, more understanding of the moon's primary conditions, relation with earth etc. are the side motivations of this project. Knowing the moonquake helps us to know about earth too as Studying Moonquakes can help us understand what seismic activity on Earth could have been like during future times when earth’s core getting cold.

Impacts: 

●    Learning about Moon's internal core structure is getting cold which is a reason of moonquake

●    Seismic waves behaviour in moon

●    More understanding of planetary structure of moon

●    Learning about Moon shrinking and its influence on moonquake

●    Knowing the moonquake helps us to know what seismic activity on Earth could have been like during future times when earth’s core getting cold.

●    Mass People would like to see realistic visualization the 3d moonquake globe of moon which will help them to learn more about the moonquake and its main reason. As a result ,it will serve both educative and recreational purpose.

1. pds-geosciences.wustl.edu - /lunar/urn-nasa-pds-apollo_seismic_event_catalog/data/
2. Microsoft Word - TechRept118.rtf (nasa.gov)
3. HamishALSEP (nasa.gov)
4. Apollo 11 Seismic Experiment - Moon: NASA Science
5. PDS: Bundle Information (nasa.gov)
6. PDS: Bundle Information (nasa.gov)

This year NASA Space Apps Challenge gave us a completely new task which was pretty tough at first. In this hackathon, we met many enthusiastic people with their new projects on different challenges. Learnt a lot of things after observing their project. This kind of hackathon helps to build our network as different skillset people get together for hackathon. 

Moonquake is an interesting topic to work on. We have learned about the reasons behind moonquakes and the functionality of ALSEP/EASEP packages. We got amazed by the futuristic plan preparation of NASA APOLLO MISSION to detect quakes on moon.

Our approach to solve this approach was

Firstly, We studied the Data that was given in the resources

Secondly, We selected which NASA data will be used in our project

Thirdly, We prepare our moonquake map by coding

The biggest setbacks was getting the latitude longitude of 3D globe of moon.

We would like to thank our mentor who helped us in several occasions.

1. Institute for Geophysics (utexas.edu)
2. www-udc.ig.utexas.edu/external/yosio/PSE/catsrepts/EvCatEntries.1008c
3. PDS Geosciences Node, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri (wustl.edu)

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