Kerbal & Planetary Science

[AloE]

Somewhat inspired by the thought that KSP can do better than the interesting NASA's "Exoplanet Travel Bureau"....

Since the KerbalEDU mission library has been deprecated, this posts offers a new concept for this sub forum.

Note this is an ALPHA phase post & Concept subject to massive changes ;-)....much more relevant detail about how to do these yourself along with related .cfg etc will be added when I have more time...

a continuous WIP post: This OP topic will be a summary of links to related posts.

 

Table of Contents:

Visualization: Mars ancient ocean (& also consider checking out @KerikBalm's MIP & Rald or "Dying Duna" which work best in KerbalEDU 1.3.1)

Visualization: Exaggerated elevation & Technical surface textures

Planetary Cartography

Visualization: Mercury's 3:2 resonance

To be continued...

Edited December 1, 2019 by AloE
WIP

[AloE]

WIP Conceptual Exploration Mars Ancient Ocean:

 

Links to Some Interesting [mostly] Ancient Mars Articles:

Mars' Ancient Ocean (& clip links)

Ancient Oceans on Mars May Have Been Older and Shallower Than Thought

Was this huge river delta on Mars the place where its oceans finally disappeared?

Mars Used to Have a Huge Ocean, but Then a Mega-Tsunami Ruined Everything

"‘submarine landslides’ can transport big boulders"

"when examined at high resolution, these shoreline-like landforms broke down and did not match what they would have expected of an ocean shoreline"

"Now we have the view from the subsurface radar"

"With Mars Methane Mystery Unsolved, Curiosity Serves Scientists a New One: Oxygen"

Useful References:

Spoiler

 

https://github.com/Kopernicus/KopernicusExamples/releases

https://kopernicus.github.io/wiki/

https://www.reddit.com/r/KerbalSpaceProgram/comments/2yt8gy/tutorialhow_to_make_a_planet_using_kopernicus/

 

 

 

 

Edited November 28, 2019 by AloE

[AloE]

Planet Topography - visualization by exaggerating vertical height (& eventually by changing surface image)

 

Links to interesting related articles:

Mars Gravity Field: GMM-3

A Space Rock Hit The Moon During The Eclipse & ESA MIDAS Project (link)

Collision that [may have] Formed the Moon

Useful References:

Spoiler

 

https://github.com/KSP-RO/RealSolarSystem/issues/91

https://bugs.kerbalspaceprogram.com/issues/17005

https://discordapp.com/invite/XmVp23s

https://outer-planets.fandom.com/wiki/Tutorials

https://astrographer.wordpress.com/2010/08/13/how-to-make-a-map-fit-a-globe/

http://richardrosenman.com/shop/spherical-mapping-corrector/

https://outer-planets.fandom.com/wiki/Planet_Creation_Tools

https://wiki.kerbalspaceprogram.com/wiki/Tutorial:Making_Planets

https://wiki.kerbalspaceprogram.com/wiki/Tutorial:Making_Planets

 

 

 

 

Edited November 30, 2019 by AloE

[AloE]

WIP Real Solar System Cartography & Geology in KerbalEDU & KSP:

NASA: "Io Erupts" (link)

 

 

Edited December 3, 2019 by AloE

[KerikBalm]

Have you checked out my mod Rald? I started with something very similar to what you have:

But then I went much more fictional:

Not only blue skies, but green life around the water's edge:

early work, only a slight green tint added, that turned the red to yellow:

 

And, yes, I did go under the oceans:

 

[AloE]

Fall break...helping Growing Epsom salt needle crystals...surprise...searching for saturation curves reveals a paper about possible key 'water' dynamics due to such hydrates

in the low pressures near the surface of Mars: ."Magnesium and calcium sulfate stabilities and the water budget of Mars"

a Red mars...'rusts' & oxygen left over from broken molecules hydrogen lost to space?...& how many oceans of Mars water may have been lost or are now stuck in salt hydrates...

so now both growing crystals & dreaming ^{("being pestered"...lol)} "when can we build a colony" of Kerbal Mars glacier mining activities with the help of NASA Mars Trek's "under dust glacier like formations" data layer, which shows some [see green dots] within 'rocketing' distance of Jezero Crater

('rocketing' distance, rather than flight distance, since even a U-2 spy plane's wings can not make enough lift in the ~7 millibar of atmosphere at Mars' surface, though maybe we get lucky for drone missions if the Mars Helicopter onboard the Perseverance Rover headed for Mars. actually works..)

Edited October 12, 2020 by AloE