Example Resources

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NASA Resources

NASA Apollo 11 Passive Seismic Experiment (part of EASEP package)
- Description of a Passive Seismic Experiment (PSE) type:
Full Apollo EASEP and ALSEP descriptions
- Look for all the places the "Passive Seismic Experiment" is described
Scientific Visualization Studio Computer Generated Imagery (CGI) Moon Kit

A.G. Marusiak, et al., “Cluster Analysis of Thermal Icequakes Using the Seismometer to Investigate Ice and Ocean Structure (SIIOS): Implications for Ocean World Seismology," 2020.
- This paper provides information about free open-source Python toolkits for seismology.
Yosio Nakamura, “Catalog of Lunar Seismic Data from Apollo Passive Seismic Experiment on 8-mm Video Cassette (Exabyte) Tapes,” June 30, 1992

Moon Trek
- Moon Trek is a NASA web-based portal for exploration of the Moon and provides easy-to-use tools for browsing, data layering, and feature search, including detailed information on the source of each assembled data product.

Other Resources

Apollo Seismic Event Catalog from NASA’s Planetary Data System (PDS)
- This page leads to a catalog of recorded and identified moonquakes. The clickable link “data” leads to the catalogs in csv and xml format, and lists the quake type, date and time the event was recorded on a specific Apollo station, and location. The file names that include “weber” combine the other catalogs. Under the clickable link “document” are necessary descriptions of the catalog. Especially helpful is “moonquake_catalog_desc.pdf.”
- Deep Moonquakes (dmq) occur in clusters and are grouped and labeled as A1-A257 (the list skips some numbers).
Apollo Seismic Waveform Data from NASA’s Planetary Data System (PDS)
- This page describes the contents of the Apollo Seismic Data “Bundle.” Links on the table lead to the data and documentation about the data bundle.
- The associated scientific article describing this data set:
  - Ceri Nunn, Yosio Nakamura, Sharon Kedar, and Mark P. Panning (2022) A New Archive of Apollo's Lunar Seismic Data. Planet. Sci. J. 3 219
  - At the end of the page under “Footnotes” are helpful links and examples showing how to work with the data. Pay special attention to Footnotes 4-7.
To view last year’s winner of Make a Moonquake Map! challenge, go here: https://2022.spaceappschallenge.org/challenges/2022-challenges/moonquake-map/teams/selene-5/project

You can obtain information on free web hosting services, by conducting an Internet search using terms such as:

code repositories
cloud platforms
free hosting
free web hosting sites

Research the repository that your team is using to ensure it offers web hosting. As an example, you may try searching for the repository name and “pages” or “web pages.” So if “foo” was the name of the repository, you may try searching for “foo pages” or “foo web pages.”

You can obtain information on web graphics language code libraries using search terms such as:

Open source webGL frameworks

You can obtain information on Python toolkits by conducting an Internet search using terms such as:

Python framework for processing seismology data

You can use your favorite web search engine to find additional helpful articles. Key search terms might include:

Apollo Seismic Data Analysis in Python
ObsPy Module and Response Function
Lunar and Planetary Science Conference

To simulate sunlight, you can use your favorite web search engine to find modeling applications and game integrated development environments. You could search keywords such as

Cross platform game engine

To find 3D Graphics libraries, you can conduct an Internet search using key words such as:

Free 3d graphics libraries
Web browser based high level 3D API
JavaScript-based engines

2023 NASA Space Apps Challenge

Make a Moonquake Map 2.0!