I demand photos! Photos of the poles!

[BeefTenderloin]

The objective of this challenge is:

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  [li]Get a screenshot of the North and South poles of Kerbin, and include the WHOLE pole.[/li]
  [li]Get a screenshot of the North and South poles of the Mun, and include the WHOLE pole.[/li]
  [li]Get a screenshot of the North and South poles of Minmus, and include the WHOLE pole.[/li]
  

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Mods are allowed, with the exception of infinite fuel tanks, etc.

Oh, and one other thing:

This must be completed in one trip, and the command pod must make it back to Kerbin to deliver the photographs.

Good luck!

[Czman007]

Are we allowed to use mods and mechjeb?

[BeefTenderloin]

Mods are allowed, with the exception of infinite fuel tanks, etc.

[ARPOLLO]

Im going to get in......

.....pole position

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[Khrissetti]

I\'ll send a Charon ferry up there right away.

[BeefTenderloin]

I\'ll send a Charon ferry up there right away.

Good luck!

[Bluejayek]

Mods are allowed, with the exception of infinite fuel tanks, etc.

Seems to me its sort of hard to police mods, unless you give a specific list. Then again, it doesnt matter because its just for the feeling of success anyways!

GL all! On the mission myself currently

[BeefTenderloin]

Seems to me its sort of hard to police mods, unless you give a specific list. Then again, it doesnt matter because its just for the feeling of success anyways!

GL all! On the mission myself currently

Remember to post pics!

[Khrissetti]

Phew, that was close, I slightly underestimated the amount of fuel I\'d need for this, I had to limp back on RCS and aerobrake three times to get back home, but still, as requested

The Charon launches

Mun North pole

Mun South Pole

Minmus South Pole

Minmus North Pole

Kerbin North Pole (Fuel running low here, not enough to incline myself directly over the poles, still, good enough to get some high quality polar pictures)

Kerbin South Pole

Coming in to splashdown

You can almost taste the briney blue

10 days, 6 poles, three celestial bodies later, our heroes return with a splash safely

[Bluejayek]

Phew, that was close, I slightly underestimated the amount of fuel I\'d need for this, I had to limp back on RCS and aerobrake three times to get back home, but still, as requested

The Charon launches

Mun North pole

Mun South Pole

Minmus South Pole

Minmus North Pole

Kerbin North Pole (Fuel running low here, not enough to incline myself directly over the poles, still, good enough to get some high quality polar pictures)

Kerbin South Pole

Coming in to splashdown

You can almost taste the briney blue

10 days, 6 poles, three celestial bodies later, our heroes return with a splash safely

Darn, you beat me too it. I think my mission was cooler though . How far were you from minimus when you took the polar pictures?

HMCSS Freedom flew by the Mun in a polar orbit, landed in the grand canyon near minimus\' north pole, and then returned to kerbin and landed at its north pole, within 3 degrees of lattitude. Didn\'t quite realize until after I touched down just how tight I was on fuel (<5kg of fuel remaining).

Was a fun flight, and I managed it in one try

http://imgur.com/a/NHyu5/embed

Some of the early pictures got jumbled somehow. When I flew the mission, I did not fly by the north pole before going to the Mun.. that picture belongs later. I did a TMI and then flew by the mun at 6km, and then upped it to 100km, and then did a Trans-minimal injection. The pictures seem correct past that point.

There are quite a few pictures in that album, but I started with over 600 from the flight, so I thought I brought it down pretty well.

My craft was completely stock, the only mod I had running is the FPS pod mod; that was to give me my real altitude. I find landing in darkness or on hills a real pain without it.

[gameassassin1020]

Been trying to make a heavy space plane that has enough fuel to reach either kerbin pole and place a rover or space station etc. These plane eat fuel like a cow butt on a grill

[BeefTenderloin]

Darn, you beat me too it. I think my mission was cooler though . How far were you from minimus when you took the polar pictures?

HMCSS Freedom flew by the Mun in a polar orbit, landed in the grand canyon near minimus\' north pole, and then returned to kerbin and landed at its north pole, within 3 degrees of lattitude. Didn\'t quite realize until after I touched down just how tight I was on fuel (<5kg of fuel remaining).

Was a fun flight, and I managed it in one try

http://imgur.com/a/NHyu5/embed

Some of the early pictures got jumbled somehow. When I flew the mission, I did not fly by the north pole before going to the Mun.. that picture belongs later. I did a TMI and then flew by the mun at 6km, and then upped it to 100km, and then did a Trans-minimal injection. The pictures seem correct past that point.

There are quite a few pictures in that album, but I started with over 600 from the flight, so I thought I brought it down pretty well.

My craft was completely stock, the only mod I had running is the FPS pod mod; that was to give me my real altitude. I find landing in darkness or on hills a real pain without it.

Good job, but the aim was to get the entire pole in a single picture. Feel free to try again!

[Khrissetti]

Darn, you beat me too it. I think my mission was cooler though . How far were you from minimus when you took the polar pictures?

HMCSS Freedom flew by the Mun in a polar orbit, landed in the grand canyon near minimus\' north pole, and then returned to kerbin and landed at its north pole, within 3 degrees of lattitude. Didn\'t quite realize until after I touched down just how tight I was on fuel (<5kg of fuel remaining).

Was a fun flight, and I managed it in one try

http://imgur.com/a/NHyu5/embed

Some of the early pictures got jumbled somehow. When I flew the mission, I did not fly by the north pole before going to the Mun.. that picture belongs later. I did a TMI and then flew by the mun at 6km, and then upped it to 100km, and then did a Trans-minimal injection. The pictures seem correct past that point.

There are quite a few pictures in that album, but I started with over 600 from the flight, so I thought I brought it down pretty well.

My craft was completely stock, the only mod I had running is the FPS pod mod; that was to give me my real altitude. I find landing in darkness or on hills a real pain without it.

Nicely done. I was at 250km and had just worked out how light I was starting to get on fuel, I decided that Minmus\' pictures would have to be very high altitude pics. Good job I did, too.

Also, I used Mechjeb and the NovaPunch pack.

[Bluejayek]

Good job, but the aim was to get the entire pole in a single picture. Feel free to try again!

It irritates me that you seem not to have looked through the entire albumn. There are both high and low altitude pictures for each of the bodies. The high altitude regions encompass the entire \'pole region\' (which isnt even well defined for minimus and the mun anyways because there is no glacier...) while being close enough in not to frame the planet. The much more interesting low altitude pictures show surface detail.

[bsalis]

Challenge Accepted!

Vehicle ready to launch!

In orbit...

Minmus capture

Minmus Polar orbit

Minmus NORTH POLE

Minmus SOUTH POLE

Return to Kerbin... aerobreaking at 36.5Km periapsis!

aerobreaking .....

Kerbin north pole, map view

Kerbin NORTH POLE

Kerbin south pole, map view

Kerbin SOUTH POLE

Time to say goodbye to third stage

Mun capture

Mun polar orbit

Mun NORTH POLE

Mun SOUTH POLE

SOme direct action to return to Kerbin!

... more aerobreaking

Oh noes!!!

Yay, all good

[Pentigan]

What about landing a vehicle on the polar ice caps of Kerbin?

Perfect way to check for actual poles.

[Bluejayek]

If you check out my image album, I ende4d my flight by landing on one of the poalr icecaps at 87 degrees.