GEOFON DLR/ESA LUNA Facility Seismic Network

DLR/ESA LUNA Facility Seismic Network

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Microgravity User Support Center, German Aerospace Center, Cologne, Germany (2026): DLR/ESA LUNA Facility Seismic Network. GFZ Data Services. Dataset/Seismic Network. doi:10.7914/6bw0-a779.

Identifier

10.7914/6bw0-a779

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Terms/rights

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International CC-BY-4.0

Creator(s)

Microgravity User Support Center, German Aerospace Center, Cologne, Germany

Description

(Abstract) The renewed and growing interest in lunar exploration is leading to the creation of various test-bed facilities for instruments and operational procedures around the globe. Here, we report on an initial seismic data set collected in an exploratory study in the 700m2 regolith yard of the DLR-ESA LUNA Moon analog facility in Cologne, Germany. The facility includes a permanent seismic broad-band station as well as 500 m of fibre-optic cable deployed in a grid-like pattern on the concrete floor below the regolith simulant. DAS data from this fibre were obtained during 3 days in November 2024, partly overlapping with a geophone qualification campaign, and used to obtain geolocations for the fibre channels. In addition to providing the first seismic characterization of LUNA, with implications for future seismic campaigns and the use of the facility to help interpreting data collected on the Moon, the measurements provided the opportunity to compare DAS and conventional seismic data for a dense, small-scale urban deployment at an indoor location. Waveform data are available from the GEOFON data centre, under network code DL.

Title

DLR/ESA LUNA Facility Seismic Network

Publisher

GFZ Data Services

Publication year

2026

Resource type

Dataset / Seismic Network

Dates

Collected 2024-11-05
Accepted 2026-04-13
Created not yet created

Place(s)

Germany

Contributor(s)

Data collectors: Microgravity User Support Center, German Aerospace Center; Knapmeyer-Endrun, Brigitte (Microgravity User Support Center, DLR Cologne, Germany); Garcia, Raphael F. (ISAE-SUPAERO, Toulouse, France)
Hosting institution: GFZ Helmholtz-Zentrum für Geoforschung
Data manager: GEOFON Data Centre

Subjects

SeisData terms: DAS Displacement Geophysics Induced seismicity MiniSEED Passive seismic Permanent Seismometers Velocity
GCMD keywords: Earthquakes Seismological stations Geophysical stations/networks Seismometers
Other terms: Monitoring system; Seismological stations

Funding reference(s)

State Government of North Rhine Westphalia

Language

Sizes

6GB still growing

Reference(s)

FDSN network code

Network dates

1980–

Data time range

2024–

Station count

Seismic metadata

fdsnws-station

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