Eeloo Hello KSPers! Minmus here, I'm a fairly new french player of this very cool game (but I've landed on both of Kerbin's muns and back), and I'm starting to send try to send probes to other bodies, such as Duna.
I have a question though: what is the next body I should be aiming to, after I build my Minmus base? (and it may be quite far away, as my plans for this base are quite complicated) I have 3 targets in mind:
1) Gilly
Pros:
-Gilly is very easy to land on
-Gilly has tiny delta V requirements (in fact, less than the mun...)
-Gilly is near Eve, which has an athmosphere and therefore quite a bit of science, and aerobraking is a thing.
Cons:
-Hard and frustrating rendezvous
- 3 biomes, so not much science on Gilly itself
- Eve is entirely inaccessible at my skill level
2) Duna and Ike
Pros:
-Loads of science
-Ike helps for both insertions and ejections
-Duna has an athmosphere, so aerobraking is possible
Cons:
-Ike doesn't only help...
-Duna may ask for a very big rocket
-Duna's athmosphere isn't that useful for landing
3) Jool
Pros:
-INSANE amounts of science to gather
-Gas giants are pretty, that's it
-Plenty of things to do, especially with some ISRU
Cons:
-Sending a manned craft to Jool is unthinkable right now
-Jool needs quite a big amount of dV
-The easiest to reach moons are also the hardest to land on (It's quite the reverse case for Sarnus, isn't it?)
-Navigating in such a complex environement will be hard for me
P.S. I'm pretty sure you have figured what is my favorite body in the kerbolar system by now!