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Everything I've been told about atmospheric pressure in KSP is wrong.

acalculus

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somnambulist

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Be aware, though, as I did a kOS measurement myself before, that the measurement is not precise - I've seen non-monotonic data. So even the barometer readout can't be totally trusted - you need to treat as a real-life experiment.

This is why I love KSP and this community -- the in-game science tools can't be trusted so we'll make our own tools and collect data.

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OhioBob

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Is the temperature actually that linear because it is coded that way, or does the graph not have very many data points?

It's coded that way. It's based off a standard model of Earth's atmosphere. Standard atmospheres define temperature as a linear function of height to eliminate the need for numerical integration in the computation of pressure versus height.

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