What is Your Favorite Planet to Orbit/Land on

[Superfluous J]

26 minutes ago, RoninFrog said:

I did too until I had to drive over 300 km at 6 m/s to get Jeb to a rescue vehicle that overshot.

You may have misunderstood me.

In 7+ years of KSP I've enjoyed driving a rover one time. That one time was on Eve.

[Little Kerbonaut!]

I also sent a rover to Eve but it wouldn’t stop bouncing up and down and ended up blowing itself up.

[SiriusRocketry]

Vall has been my favourite for a very long time, due to the beautiful colour, fantastic view and the mystery of the Vall henge structure. The terrain is wacky and varied, and Vall seems a very cool sci-fi destination, probably due to the colour. 

Approaching Jool from an interplanetary trajectory is also a fantastic feeling - very 2001 in the way the green swirls of clouds fill your view. Jool has a real sense of scale not really seen elsewhere in the game IMO. 

Kerbin is lovely to explore without risking the danger of space travel - listening to piano music while driving a rover through a river valley is a surprisingly sentimental experience, and flying a plane to the North Pole in real time was one of the most relaxing experiences I've had in KSP. 

The Duna and Ike system was my second interplanetary destination (after Eve orbit/Gilly landing) and the Duna landing will always hold a place in my heart for being the moment I really sat back and realised the difficulty and effort that had gone into the moment. Ike is a nice little stop on a Duna venture and offers stunning views of Duna from the surface. 

[HansonKerman]

7 hours ago, SiriusRocketry said:

ke is a nice little stop on a Duna venture and offers stunning views of Duna from the surface

Not to mention that it looks amazing now. The milky hills and individual grains of dust are so good looking and a facelift to a formerly boring and annoying moon.

[Rocket Witch]

Orbit: Arkas (mod planet). With Planetshine it gives off a warm golden glow, and one can watch its constant sandtorms dance across the surface, literally — it has that kind of EVE cloud texture that appears to morph. I haven't explored the surface yet beyond sending an immobile probe, and as a mod planet its surface topography isn't well-documented by the community, so spotting the volcanoes and the dark flats that resemble lakes of some kind (on a desert planet!) gives it a charming mystery.

Land: Kerbin. The feeling of a triumphant return home! Yet it's still trepidacious, because there's 70km of atmosphere to plough through and possibly even a runway to land on at the end. It's like facing a secret boss after the final boss of a game.

Edited June 23, 2020 by Rocket Witch