Research/LunaSeis-1Research prototype

LunaSeis-1: When Balanced Apollo Seismic Detection Fails Under Cross-Station Continuous Scanning

A reproducible lightweight ML research prototype for Apollo lunar-seismic waveforms.

01Overview

Overview

LunaSeis-1 is Archeum Studios' first official research paper, authored by Advaith Praveen (APRK). It studies whether a compact detector trained on Apollo Passive Seismic Experiment data can generalize across stations and remain useful during long continuous scans.

The present answer is honest and deliberately bounded: not operational yet. The selected 2,761-parameter depthwise CNN is a functioning open inference prototype, but frozen continuous evaluations exposed missed events and excessive false alarms.

02Evidence boundary

Evidence boundary

This page is deliberately careful with claims. LunaSeis-1 is a reproducible research prototype, not an operational lunar seismic detector.

The frozen continuous evaluations are part of the point: they expose missed events, false alarms, and station-specific distribution shifts that should be solved before stronger claims are made.

04 — Findings

What the paper preserves.

  • 1,314 reconciled physical-event candidates from official PDS and corrected shallow-moonquake sources.
  • ATT-aware timing, explicit gap preservation, and checksum-backed NASA provenance.
  • Event-, station-, chronology-, and repeating-family-aware leakage controls.
  • More than 5,243 station-hours across two frozen continuous tests.
  • Depthwise CNN development false-trigger rate of 0.211/hour at 91.15% development event recall.
  • Frozen Grade-C impact challenge: 12/63 recall with 0.868 false triggers/hour.

05 — Prototype

Selected prototype details.

ArchitectureDepthwise-separable 1D CNN
Parameters2,761
Input600-second MH waveform plus validity mask
PreprocessingPer-window median / robust scale, clipped to +/-20
Supported stationsApollo 12, 14, 15, 16
Evidence boundaryResearch prototype, not an operational detector

Scores above the included development threshold are candidate triggers, not verified moonquakes.