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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. https://doi.org/10.7914/6bw0-a779.

Identifier

10.7914/6bw0-a779

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Terms/rights

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Creator(s)

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

Description

• (Abstract) DLR and ESA are jointly operating the LUNA Moon analogue facility in on the DLR campus in Cologne, Germany, which provides a simulation environment to test hardware, commanding, procedures and operations for future planetary, and especially lunar, missions, including astronaut training. LUNA consists of a 700 square-meter hall covered in approximately 60 cm of mare regolith simulant, with a specific deep floor area that allows for up to 3 m regolith depth. Geophysical missions are an important use case, and the permanent seismic station LUNAF with a Trillium compact 120 s broad-band sensor is installed in LUNA to provide continuous reference information. The seismometer is installed in a box on the concrete floor of LUNA. Additionally, 500 m of fibre optic cable for DAS and DTS applications are installed across the hall below the regolith. DAS data are not obtained continuously, but only during specific user campaigns. Both seismic and DAS data from these temporary campaigns may also archived under this network code, if requested by campaign teams. 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

1. Collected 2024-11-05
2. Accepted 2026-04-13
3. Created 2023-06-21

Place(s)

1. 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); Jousset, Philippe (GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany); Hart, Johannes (GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany); Rodríguez-Tribaldos, Verónica (GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany); Pinzon-Rincon, Laura (GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany); Krawczyk, Charlotte M. (GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany)
• 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)

1. State Government of North Rhine Westphalia

Language

en

Sizes

1. 6GB still growing

Reference(s)

1. (References) dl S3 Object Storage with raw data, https://s3.gfz-potsdam.de/dog-ext.geofon.dl S3 Information

FDSN network code

DL

Network dates

1980–

Data time range

2024–

Station count

11

Seismic metadata

fdsnws-station FDSN StationXML SC3 XML

To retrieve waveform data and metadata (including instrument responses) for this and other seismic networks, see here. Network (data set) values are taken from DataCite XML from 2026-07-23 with Metadata Properties version 4.4. Contact us if you are the PI and wish to make changes. Old-style network page for this network here.

Station List for Network Code DL