Kerbin Geographical society

[Rath]

That is an easter egg.

[Xiphosura]

Got a quick video up, this time I'm exploring an anomaly I found in the forzen north, it has some pretty cool features around it, including a lake that my kerbals sink in (?) and fairly aircraft friendly terrain. The vid itself is glitchy as all heck, editing/recording software is just free crud, but I didn't get any of that in game and have no clue what it's about. I guess screenshots have their upsides

 

[seanth]

To the most honorable Kerbin Geographic Society.

My intrepid Kerbals have been investigating the coasts of Kerbin as they design water-craft with increasing range. As we approach no-refueling distances of 75% circumnavigation of the planet, we yearn for mission ideas. Past missions here:

Anyone have objective ideas? The current craft design has a stock submarine onboard that lets me place flags under water.

Edited January 18, 2017 by seanth

[OrbitalBuzzsaw]

Let's give proper names for Kerbin's continents! I think the KSC one should be Klaathu (see Kollaborative Warfare series)

[Xiphosura]

9 hours ago, seanth said:

Anyone have objective ideas?

Perhaps a detailed exploration of the edge of the ice caps? The sheer drop (while unrealistic) should make for some interesting scenery.

I'm currently trying to make an efficient VTOL for exploring remote locations in mountains and badlands, but it's proving difficult to lift anything bigger than a mk1 aircraft with any form of reasonable fuel efficiency.

[Rath]

A methodical search for underwater mountains?

[Brent Kerman]

Is there a flag for the Kerbin Geographical Society? I am going to use my fleet of rovers, planes, and boats to do geological expeditions around Kerbin and would use a flag if I had one.

PS. Watch for my posts

[Rath]

I've just been using the default kerbin flag, but making a flag would be cool.  Why not base it on this: http://m.imgur.com/FMOdita

[Xiphosura]

In terms of a flag, how about this one? I smushed it together in GIMP in about 0.5s and am now using it as the flag I put on all my KGS missions.

[Brent Kerman]

I made a flag. It is based off the National Geographic Society flag. Anybody who wants can use this, add to signature, whatever, its free!

 

Oh? It was displaying, now it quit. How do you do it?

 

Got it now?

 

Edited February 4, 2017 by Brent Kerman
Got picture to work. OR NOT? Again?

[Brent Kerman]

I built three rovers to do land exploration. (I might Elcano as well.) I will make a thread in Mission Reports documenting it. If any of you have sites you especially want me to visit, let me know. I have all types of ground science experiments, both Stock and DMagic. So if you want a location explored, give me the coordinates.

Here are the rovers:

Ready to go,

On our way!

I am using Burn Together, TAC Life Support, Planetary Base Systems, Mechjeb, Kerbal Konstructs, and several others. #ModItTillItBreaks.

EDIT: Burn together doesn't work good enough, building one big rover with @Angel-125's Pathfinder and Buffalo Mod.

Link to report here: Road of Exploration

Edited March 13, 2017 by Brent Kerman
Added link.

[Angelo Kerman]

I like the idea of the Kerbin Geographic Society. Interestingly enough, my grandfather was editor and chief of National Geographic Magazine for many years, having worked his way up from being a photographer for the magazine. Seeing people on this thread discussing various geographical features around Kerbin reminds me of a time when I visited my grandfather's office as a kid, and it was stuffed with books maps, and the like. Anyway, once I get a couple of mod releases done, hopefully I'll be able to go explore and report my findings as well.

[Rath]

I'm wondering whats going on here:

http://imgur.com/a/WJIeZ

 

[Xiphosura]

On 07/03/2017 at 10:14 AM, Rath said:

I'm wondering whats going on here:

http://imgur.com/a/WJIeZ

 

Looks to me like a geologically active area, with volcanic mountain ranges and valleys, possibly a fault line where that crack at the bottom is.

I'm interested in what process could make a lone mountain in the middle of a continent like this one I came across, I checked and it is completely independent of the range in the background, and it didn't have a caldera of obvious volcanic feature.

Edited March 12, 2017 by Caelus5
wording

[322997am]

Imma go drive here I'm interested.

[Rath]

On 3/12/2017 at 4:05 PM, Caelus5 said:

Looks to me like a geologically active area, with volcanic mountain ranges and valleys, possibly a fault line where that crack at the bottom is.

I'm interested in what process could make a lone mountain in the middle of a continent like this one I came across, I checked and it is completely independent of the range in the background, and it didn't have a caldera of obvious volcanic feature.

What mod is that jet from?  It doesn't look B9.

[Brent Kerman]

On ‎3‎/‎12‎/‎2017 at 4:05 AM, Caelus5 said:

Looks to me like a geologically active area, with volcanic mountain ranges and valleys, possibly a fault line where that crack at the bottom is.

I'm interested in what process could make a lone mountain in the middle of a continent like this one I came across, I checked and it is completely independent of the range in the background, and it didn't have a caldera of obvious volcanic feature.

Where is this? I'm going to investigate further.

[Xiphosura]

On 14/03/2017 at 8:55 PM, Rath said:

What mod is that jet from?  It doesn't look B9.

It's from the Airplane Plus parts pack, it's a really good mini-goliath type engine with adorable thrust reversal flaps but the noise it makes is pure high-pitch auditory cancer.

I have recently gone on another expedition to the lone mountain, and recorded a bit of very framey video while I was there, near the beginning in map mode you can see the approximate location of the mountain

I think that this mountain is very likely volcanic in origin, especially judging by the caldera/crater visible at 1:00 in.

Edited March 21, 2017 by Caelus5
Youtube is finally back!

[Seabo14]

I've been doing some speculating, and came up with this in Blender:

The Unobtanium conducts electricity, and therefore via geodynamo theory, creates a magnetic field, protecting Kerbals. Its ultra high density results in it sinking to the core. The Mantle of Explodium helps explain the abundance of rocket fuel on Kerbin, and possibly the theorized vulcanism! The Ore Crust is a result of an earlier impact, early when Kerbin resembled Dres, and was seismically inactive, when an asteroid impacted Kerbin, disturbing a large mass east of the 'Keurasia' continent, antipodal to the new huge crater, which formed into a new body, Mun. The debris cloud formed a lithobraking medium to slow down a passing comet, hence known as 'Minmus'. The asteroid liquefied instantly, and was spread in the upper mantle, and lower crust. The seismic consequences of this impact disturbed the inert interior, kick-starting seismic activity.

 

 

(Yes, that is Kerbin, you can see the KSC continent and the spain analog on the right. If anyone wants the blend file, or the original image at a different res, just ask.)

Edited March 29, 2017 by Seabo14
More on the Impact

[ZooNamedGames]

I've got a 1 Kerbal sub from 1.1.3 that simply needs some patch work and can be used in 1.2 for those who want to explore the sea.

I'd like to see it used to map the topography of Kerbin's, Eve's and even Laythe's shores. I've used hyperedit to get it to Laythe and it works perfectly. Eve will be a challenge as it'll have to be based off of some source other than jet engines. I'm looking into a xenon or rocket powered alternative. Won't have the duration but ought to be fine.

[samuel9900]

The Kerbistan Navy and Naval Aviation will join this quest for knowledge!

[Brent Kerman]

1 hour ago, samuel9900 said:

The Kerbistan Navy and Naval Aviation will join this quest for knowledge!

Welcome!

[Rath]

I wanna get this thread doing something again so here we go (you can find a kerbalmaps replacement here)

What could have formed this?  Looks like it could be a caldera or something.  It's down near the tip of the KSC continent if anybody want's to go check it out in game.

 

Oooh, I found another dry riverbed, it looks like the whole desert was its drainage basin.  That's the desert with the temple, perhaps it was a massive nile-style delta previously.

 

 

[samuel9900]

Mission accepted

 

[samuel9900]

The Kerbistan navy has completed a basic survey of the possible Caldera (Unless triplecanoes exist, it's probably not a caldera) Please also notice the small hole near the shore on the "Caldera" image. (Pardon the unrelated images, I edited them out in imgur but they didn't disappear in this for some reason)

 

Edited May 17, 2017 by samuel9900