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Your challenge today, boys and girls, is to explore one of the weirdest places in the Kerbal's solar system: The Moho North Pole Hole! 

It is located at exactly the North Pole of Moho...

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It is a Kraken-rich location that it is very difficult to even HyperEdit to, never mind pilot a craft near. However, the kudos rewards of successfully descending to the bottom are enormous. 

Once there you can take screenshots unique in the Kerbal's system...

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Your mission then:

1. Get a stock craft (KSP 1.0.5 or 1.1) of your own design to the edge of the Moho North Pole Hole (MoHole) anyway you like - HyperEdit is fine. 

2. Pilot your craft all the way to the bottom of the MoHole with no major breakages i.e. it is still pilotable

3. Document the descent and arrival with a series of screenshots. 

Just a few rules:

1. No cheats like infinite fuel

2. No physics or part-changing/adding mods

No leader board - everyone is a winner who makes it all the way to the bottom!

 

Edited by Foxster
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OK, so that was a lot of fun.  I build a heavy rover, cleverly named Droppy McDropFace, and drove it to the edge and dropped my little ball of fun.  Then drove the rover off the cliff after it because reasons.  Loooong way down, some exciting explosions, and came to rest at the very bottom.  And some rover bits came tumbling after.

While technically still pilotable, I think it would be safe to say that some bits broke off.  I mean, most of the bits broke off.  Many of them on purpose.

 

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OK, 3 more attempts :)

FIrst with a rolling mess of landing legs with no SAS or control of any kind.  Made it most of the way, then somehow the probe inside the service bay smashed near the bottom.  More trash on the heap.

Next an ion probe with 1.07 TWR.  Turns out not enough.

Last, I made it to the bottom intact (and enough xenon and TWR to fly back out) with a modified ion probe.

 

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You know what? I actually did this today in my first ever visit to Moho without knowing someone had made a challenge. Unfortunately, the probe core is now the only part left at the bottom of the hole. The shadows and stretched textures are really disorientating.

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1 minute ago, Ultimate Steve said:

You know what? I actually did this today in my first ever visit to Moho without knowing someone had made a challenge. Unfortunately, the probe core is now the only part left at the bottom of the hole. The shadows and stretched textures are really disorientating.

Just keep steering north and you stay in the center as you go down.  Ignore the sickening whirling of the planet around your ship and the graphics glitches.  That's totally normal.

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Just now, Jetski said:

Just keep steering north and you stay in the center as you go down.  Ignore the sickening whirling of the planet around your ship and the graphics glitches.  That's totally normal.

Yes, I know, but even so it can be really difficult to know how far above the terrain you are.

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Well done, Jetski! 

The rover idea is really interesting. I hadn't thought of delivering a descent vehicle that way but it is a good way to save some dV. Throwing it down the hole too is very Kerbal. 

It has inspired me to think about whether some kind of wall-crawler, possibly with an ion engine pushing against the wall and another upwards might be possible.  

I'll have a go at a badge later but it is not my forte so it might be a bit "odd". 

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Alright, so my design was pretty simple, and it was pretty easy getting it down

I may or may have not used an old parts mod I have installed considering the old parts give me a stiffy(namely the old Mk1 Pod)

pls no bully ;-;

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1 hour ago, Foxster said:

Nice job, Noob21!

Yes, some of those parts are a tad non-stock these days but I don't think they are overpowered, so good enough. 

 

Well the only techincally non-stock parts I used were the old Mk1 Command Pod which is either 0.2 tons lighter or heavier than the one we have now, and the old RV-105 thruster, which is only different externally. It has the same performance as the one we have as stock.

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