BACKGROUND

From 1968 to 1972, crewed Apollo missions were carried out. To keep track of the geophysical activities taking place on the moon, the astronauts left behind many seismometers on the lunar surface. These seismometers recorded data on exabyte cassettes and transmitted it back to Earth. Scientists have since conducted a thorough analysis of the data to learn more about the interior makeup of the moon. Despite the fact that the data has been around for a while, we were unable to locate a tool that could plot and visually represent the seismic wave's propagation in a user-friendly manner.

VISUALIZATION

FEATURES

Toggle between the different types of moonquakes like the shallow quakes, deep quakes, and meteorite collisions
Time-series data and view a moonquake 3D waveform
View lunar topography map, surface roughness maps, and gravity maps
Dissect moon and view its layers
View moon locations (lunar craters, seas, mountains, ..etc.)
View the moonquake's seismograph generated from ObsPy
Rotate moon and edit lighting
View the 3D lunar module that NASA used in its own 3D environment
Experience the moonquake in its own 3D environment

TOOLS USED

The project was developed using:

The web app was developed in ViteJS using ThreeJS
NodeJS
ObsPy for processing seismic data
All 3D assets and animations were created in Blender, ThreeJS, Adobe After Effects, and Premiere Pro
All 2D assets were done in Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator

HACKATHON JOURNEY

We had an amazing time completing the Space Apps challenge this year. While doing our research we were surprised that we knew absolutely nothing about the moon! The same moon which we have been looking at every night. This was enough to give us the motivation to complete this challenge. We have learned a lot about 3D modelling, the Moon and its internal structure, which we would now like to share with everyone.

Although everyone was working on a different part of the project, from data processing to creating animation to finally compiling everything into one, all of us shared the same spirit and enjoyed this journey to it's fullest.

SOME IMAGES

2023 NASA Space Apps Challenge

Aberration