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Distance as shown by F3? Leaves me dabsmack in the middle of a very green continent, no sand or water to be seen. At 1000km, I was flying right over some whitepeaked mountains. After the turn and another 1000km, some more mountains. If you're measuring through something other than F3, distances (and search area) could vary a lot. I'll try again when I get back. Val wants to go scuba diving!

Visited Mt. Kerverest peak and planted a flag. I think that means it's officially mine now. ( "I claim Mt. Kerverest as landmark!" "You can't claim this. I got here first! At the top of this page!" "Do you have a flag?") I'll settle for first visitation rights. I'm flexible.

I just realized why I wasn't being assigned any points for visiting this: I was looking at the wrong screenshot (last picture in this post), when it should've been this one: So here's my visitation proof for what I now understand to be the actual landmark referred to as Kwitzerland: swjr-swis, cinque pointes. Oui?

It's not Kayak River, it's the River Formerly Known as Castille7's Dead End That Turned Out to be Too Near to Klapaucius' Mountain Lake, but approached and viewed from the northern edge of the canyon. In other words: go to The Lake Currently Named for Klapaucius, then fly out/along the canyon that ends in it. Where the canyon transforms into a river, its northern (left-hand side) wall ends in a pretty high peak with a plateau on top, and some ridges that descend steeply towards the river. Looking towards the river from that peak you will see the ridges from cupcake's video down below, and the same river rapids in the background. Which, incidentally, I already screenshot back when I did my second visit to the lake to claim visitation rights of that tiny canyon-trapped lake. Remember this one? So, since I had a screenshot from before @cupcake's video, and @purpleivan just posted visitation screenshots too... doth I retroactively get my 10 points for this unwitting landmark and prematurely started Weekend Exploration Challenge? Naturally, @cupcake should then be accorded 5 points for first visitation, and @purpleivan 4 points for second. I am nothing if not generous. Just to keep the contention going a little longer, and if this landmark is (against all odds) assigned to me, I'd like to rename it back to Dead End River, to redeem an explorer of this here club we shall not discuss (the club, not the explorer) whose previous naming of this landmark was rendered invalid (the explorer, not the club) (what club?). Yes, I'm having way too much fun at this.

The pointy end goes into the Space thing.

It is also highly dependent on the 'Terrain Detail' game setting - surface smoothing being done in bigger or smaller tiles causes significant differences in ground surface elevation. I've seen differences between 0-100m from what other people have given for the exact same coordinates. Terrain with large altitude gradients tend to cause larger differences between detail settings. Sometimes this has caused known easter eggs to be unreachable in a game due to ending up under the ground surface (desert temple being a well-known example).

I do hope KSP2 includes some form of weather in the stock game. Gorgeous views, thank you.

Kerbin's poles are as flat as could be, so it is possible to prevent/correct the inherent difficulties at those points. We have the technology! I'm all for keeping the Mohole, for nostalgic reasons. I wouldn't mind the others being retouched to smooth them out.

But they got greedy and dug too deep. That's how the Kraken was released.

Feeling a bit bad that the river is now out as landmark because despite a prior official name, I kinda liked the name you gave it. I'm having great fun seeing what monikers people come up with for the visited landmarks. I think the ruling is fair though.

Most correct, and a very just and fair decision. Gain a point, lose a point. The site was well worth a visit even without points to gain. In fact I'd say most of the landmarks so far are worth checking out - there tends to be a lot more to see than the few screenshots posted. Maybe with the exception of a certain very lonely island, which really only showed lots of ocean.

No credit for me dropping an observation post there? It's a bit hard to see in the dark, but this looks like he's right over Lake Klapacius, except looking in the opposite direction. A brightened version of his screenshot, and a screenshot of my own from the angle I mean, to compare: Or does it count as a separate landmark for showing a different part of the area? Which I'd be ok with, but then I'd like credit for first visitation. Similar thing here: this looks like the shore of the Dumbell Lakes @SuicidalInsanity already posted. Except here it literally shows the same area, just from lower by the ground. I add both screenshots side by side. Yes/no? Ok, I thought you were just naming @TheFlyingKerman's landmark with this, but apparently you meant to claim a landmark of your own. So I went back there to visit the place and prove first visitation:

Just for contrast, the same thing in orbit around Gilly: This GIF is rendered in real time. Relative velocity is about 31.4m/s, which gives plenty of time to actually see the fly-through... when you succeed. I highly recommend it.

A quick setup with a cheated orbit (I don't have the time or inclination right now to try it otherwise), just to show the potential futility of trying to record such a thing on the Mun: This fragment is in low orbit, with the cargo bays and the probe in almost identical orbits, except one is prograde and the other retrograde. This GIF is slowed down 10x and shows just 7 frames, of which only 3 are in clear vicinity of the bay. In real time you basically just see a quick flash and it's gone. Relative velocity is about 1100m/s, which is twice(*) what it would be when you do it with a structure on ground level... so you get a couple frames more, but it's still going to be over in half a blink. Seriously, before you spend too much time trying this on Mun just to find out you can't really get a good recording... head out to Gilly. Orbital speed there is in the order of 15-20m/s in the lowest orbits... much more likely to get some sweet footage of your feat. (*: less than twice, because lowering orbit to ground level will increase orbital speed.)

Endless optimism. I like it. I have moments like that when I check out every subsequent patch. "Hey, maybe this update they'll have finally ..." "... flipped the texture of the Jr docking port so it's the right side up." "... rotated the texture on the fairing bases so we don't need to pick between the text 'attach payload here' being sideways or mirror symmetry acting all weird when we rotate the base to get the text the right side up." "... fixed the default orientation of the <mk0 LF tank|spark|reliant|swivel|skipper> so it actually looks and rotates mirrored in mirror symmetry." "... changed the lightbulbs in the Mk2 inline cockpit front and aft hatches so they light up when turning on the lights, like every other part with a hatch window on the stack nodes." "... centered the rotation point on the small foldable radiators (TCS) so they don't rotate off-center." "... fixed the claw's (AGU) drag parameters so it's actually draggier when it's armed and the fairing is open." But nope, never seems to happen. It's ok, I'll check again next time.

I've done this with an Mk3 'tunnel station' (just a couple of open-ended Mk3 cargo bays and a probe core) in orbit around Gilly, and a tiny 0.625m probe with some lights shot in the exact opposite direction. The only place this was even remotely possible to achieve was Gilly, as orbital speed is low enough that a prograde/retrograde flyby is slow enough to be able to record it (as opposed to just one or two frames anyplace else). Took a whole bunch of attempts (getting something in that exact a retrograde orbit is... exasperating), but finally managed to make one actually pass through the cargo bays, which was plain to see as the lights on the probe illuminated the inside of the bays in passing. Unfortunately it's one more of those videos I can't seem to find anymore; I must've archived a bunch of them to make some room on my SDD, but heck if I know on which USB disk I saved them. Not exactly the same thing you mention, since you want a structure on the ground - but I have to concur with @vyznev that that's the most plausible place to try this.

I've done 5900m and that's still quite safe. You do fly through the higher part of the canyon, but the limiting obstacle is not the canyon, it's a crater edge a bit further away. A long while ago, back in KSP 1.0.5: Some say Bob came back from that trip without his suit trousers. Some say those trousers are still stinking up the Mun canyon to this day. All we know is... Bob is still touchy on the subject.

I think the actual Mount Keverest was already discovered and flagged a good while ago. It helped having the interactive map of Kerbin online back then - the map also gave altitudes under the cursor. Even though this isn't The One, it's a very pleasing site to visit. So I decided to plant an observation tower at the summit. Off went our intrepid explorers in their Swallow.

I already did, way back when. There's even video footage of the attempt. I used a variant of that same plane for this revisit. It's become my land-pretty-much-anywhere-I-fancy vehicle. The only reason I don't use it more often is because it only flies a mere Mach 1.15 fully tanked (not bad for a seaplane, mind you), and time is of essence lately.

Time for ConnaitAir: dumping a fresh batch of incorrigibles at Mach 4 on your penal colony. Incidentally, my own name for this island is James Brown.

Uhm guys, this looks very much like looking east from the western-most shore of @SuicidalInsanity's Dumbell Lakes (my name), which would make it not a new location:

The Allwing1 was deployed once more to visit this location:

The AllWing 1 was chosen to visit the Island Fire Escape:

Sending my G.A.S. candidate design, the Gojira3, to this location:

To quote our liege: you make me sad. Considering my involvement in the redesign of the Swallow, it is upon my honour to prove the infallible workings of this (European) method of transportation. Hence, another quest was started: the Quest for the Grounded Relay. May the Lady of the Icey Lake (apparently fulgur's Val) grant us favour this day.