Today's stupid question

[ibanix]

What's the difference between 'landed' and 'splashed down'? Because !SCIENCE! cares.

Edited July 28, 2015 by ibanix

[stibbons]

Where you do it. Landed is on land. Splashed down is in water.

[ibanix]

It is possible to splash down on land. At least, there is a science entry for every Kerbin biome for 'splashed down'. There's also one for 'landed at Kerbin's water'.

[Superfluous J]

You cannot splash down on land. You can however be splashed down (in water) in a biome that is not the "water" biome. You can also be landed (yes, on land) in the water biome if you look hard enough or get lucky.

Not a dumb question at all. It's actually quite a complex answer.

[ibanix]

Interesting! Any hints on where one might manage these oddball splash landings?

[Pecan]

http://www.kerbalmaps.com/

Go jump in a lake! (Hehe, not the sort of thing I expected to be writing on the KSP forum)

[nightingale]

I have to throw in a couple things here:

1. If contracts are your kind of thing, Field Research has some contracts that will give you suggested waypoints for these hard-to-find combinations.
   
2. You can also get landed on Water by EVA'ing and standing on your ship. You can get this for non-EVA experiments by landing on a ship (or if you're clever, build a ship with a bottom section that floats, and decouple a top section with loads of experiments - FOR SCIENCE).
   

[MaverickSawyer]

Interesting! Any hints on where one might manage these oddball splash landings?

The Island airfield used to be the Water biome. Haven't looked lately.

*loads a cargo plane with a science rover*