[How to access planets before landing on them in-game?]

3 hours ago, Boyster said:

I do not think you can find the info you seeking without cheat sheets.

Make Kerbin, Mun and Minmus your testing grounds.

They represent in some scale most of the challenges you will face anywhere in the system.

Your probe/lander will then be able to survive long enough to gather all the info you need for the next journey.

Having failed missions is not a bad thing as long you pay close on what failed and when it failed.

Its the Kerbal way you know, fail is part of the fun  .

Of course I like the failing and rescue missions too! But man Duna is soo much further and expensive! I’ve managed to scrape together 4 mil so the timing is now! 

I did work out the Duna window with trail and error nodeing! But that wasn’t fun at all so I’m okay with the that transfer window site!

[How to access planets before landing on them in-game?]

3 hours ago, Wobbly Av8r said:

If you go into the Tracking Station, all you need to do is zoom out until you see more than just Kerbin, double-click on the celestial body in question (you can zoom into it now and take a long look) and then on the bottom right click one of the information tabs - either Resources, Information and one other - just the essential information here. There are little blurbs in the KSPedia (the book icon) that gives humurous, rather than really informational, data on each celestial body.

That’s exactly it! Thank you! Was more hoping I’d have to discover that information by getting close or using scanners, but I supposed id have even less life haha

[How to access planets before landing on them in-game?]

Hello fellow bedroom astronauts!

TL-DR: how can I work out atmosphere heights, pressures, stuff to help me land on new bodies in game without cheat sheets? 

One thing I really appreciate in the game is the incredibly steep learning curve! I’m now at a stage where I’ve got orbitals, mining operations and tourist busses flying round Kerbin and it’s moons, and have sent a few probes (and one brave astronaut, RIP) to Duna and eve.

I would like to take this further but need to know more about about these celestial bodies so I can build something suitable instead of getting all the way there to realise it’s not gonna work. 

Of course I could use cheat sheets to figure out DV needed or atmosphere heights, strength of gravity etc but I’d rather use the in game instruments to work it out myself! Is this possible? Besides reading the temperature none of the data makes much sense! Would anyone be able to point me in the right direction? 

Thanks in advance