lajoswinkler

Incredible composite! However, the color is not very consistent with what NASA has been releasing so far. After all, this is an amateur work so caution is needed. - - - Updated - - - I've pulled out Hydra from the raw images and adjusted the contrast to neutralize the background noise. No magnification or stacking whatsoever.

Interesting to see how rotational frame of reference won't work in some scenes; the debris, namely. Very good job, nonetheless.

The idea for a "missing link" is mute just like "chicken or egg" question is. People who propose such ideas simply don't know how evolution works. Mostly journalists and crackpots. This is simply one of our cousins.

Amazing stuff. The best video of a blue jet I've ever seen. Red sprites appear for just a brief moment, like a blink.

The first one is Lemon Creek glacier, as noted in the URL, and the other one I have no idea. Looks like a deathtrap to me. A beautiful one, though.

Those don't look like dunes to me. I'm inclined to think that is a very old (hence lots of tholins) water ice glacier, with compression features.

Can someone point out those "dunes"? Either I'm not looking at the right things or... - - - Updated - - - I did my best. It's monochrome, but the tint corresponds to NASA's released "near true color" images.

I don't see where that dude found dunes and I find such explanation stupid. Those features look exactly like convection cells, as I was pointing out in the past. More specifically, those look like glorified, slow Rayleigh-Bénard cells.

Oh, now I'm looking at the texture file. Yes, it seems it's not possible. I thought the rings were made differently, where an alpha transparent part could be inserted, but yeah, it can't be done like this. Texture file is 1x1024 PNG which is then "smeared" around the planet. I might fork a Neidon ring for my own purposes. I'd like to see a thin one. Just like Urlum's eight rings, only more narrow and just one.

Have you considered adding arcs around Neidon? Neptune does have full rings, but at first they were thought to be broken into arcs. It would be cool to have a single broken ring. Just a thought.

Kaos 2B finished the flyby. First it went through the ionizing belts of Neidon. After that, really fast flyby a bit over 20 km above Thatmo's ground. Instruments had to work fast as the flyby occured at >11 km/s. Results: - Neidon has lethal ionized belts, as all gas giants have - Thatmo has a retrograde orbit - Thatmo has a very young icy surface with plains and mountains, proving the satellite is geologically active, probably because of tidal heating - tenuous atmosphere has been detected over Thatmo's surface with suggested maximum pressure much lower than Duna's at its deepest part - previously unknown satellite has been discovered, named Nissee, in an enormous, eccentrical, highly inclined orbit around Neidon; nothing is known about it except that it's very tiny Conclusion - a manned mission to Thatmo and Nissee will be needed to investigate surfaces of these satellites and to bring back the rock samples.

The whole area is filled with such slender structures. It would probably crumble under human weight on Mars. It's sedimentary rock erroded by the storms over the aeons. Looks very nice, but it's aeolic erosion of a sedimentary deposits. I don't know what that "spoon" is made of, but you can see a lightly colored sedimentary vein running down the slope and that looks like quartz. Nothing we don't have here and you've seen it a number of times.

Perhaps, but it's necessary to get there in reasonable time. Three hours before Neidon periapsis. Main antenna is no longer directed towards Kerbin. Instruments are scanning the planet. Telescope sweep discovered one more satellite, visible as a tiny speck few pixels wide at this resolution. Its distance from Neidon is enormous.

More than 17.5 km/s relative to Kerbol right after the engine shutdown.

~ Ministry Of No Better Things To Do special report ~ After the ground based telescopes on Kerbin discovered a natural satellite of Neidon, the MONBTTD has ordered a transaction of funds for a Kaos 2B mission, a repeated flyby of the Neidon system, but this time on a hyperbolic trajectory, to cut short the time needed to reach it. Kaos 2B is a nuclear thermal probe with the latest passive heat dissipation technology. - end of report - Kaos 2B was launched using 2 Mainsail engines and two 2.5 m liquid fuel boosters. Second stage circularized the orbit and increased the speed of the probe over second cosmic, to get away from Kerbin. Third stage was nuclear, using one LV-N engine that accelerated the probe beyond third cosmic speed and set it to hyperbolic trajectory with Neidon and Thatmo. Fine tuning of the trajectory was done with the help of two linear RCS thrusters with attenuated thrust. One year, 48 days until Thatmo flyby.

Yeah, this is the first one I saw. It's much easier to return nowdays, because of lower delta v requirements and possibility of refueling, but landing is harder. Well done.

It's obviously on a centimetre scale. I'll go with aeolic erosion.

I'll just leave this here.

I wouldn't even bother spreading this poo further, but if you have to, use one of those services that hide links, so that Google doesn't index it on this forum.

Ugh, that bottom stitch is so unfortunate. xD

Congrats on Neidon's satellites. One of the best mods for KSP ever. I'd like to see it become stock. I think I'm gonna send Kron 5 there, but I'll wait until you polish this a bit more. Regarding the parachutes, would Real Chute be capable of working on Thatmo? After all, it's configurable and I'd make Thatmo's atmosphere so weak not even Real Chute could do anything about it. There is a problem, though. I've been reading Squad had lots of problems with atmospheres less dense than Duna's. Apparently something breaks apart, visually. All large KBOs with atmospheres, including Triton, must have total darkness above the horizon. At few pascals (in real life), such atmosphere is useless for pretty much anything we're used to.

Any progress? Why don't you upload it to Kerbalstuff.com? It allows the users to follow new releases by e-mail notifications.

This is great news, thank you for reminding me! The next mission will be sent to Neidon using KSP v.1.0.4. Ablate will have to wait for v.1.1.x.

What the hell happened to Facebook? It's one of the largest sources out there.

Heat Control is still at v1.0.2, but I'm testing out Heat Management at the moment. New set of probes will have to be launched to Ablate, but in the mean time, I'm thinking of sending a Kron ship to Duna and Ike.