Anomaly Hunting on Kerbin

[JoeSchmuckatelli]

I happened to run a Kerbnet scan of Minmus using a rover with RoveMate as the probe core while in orbit a while back.  It showed an anomaly which I plopped waypoints on at various times during my descent.  This resulted in a triangular zone that I could search... and lo and behold, I found a something there!

So, as I was leaving on a different mission, with a different RoveMate on board, I used it's Kerbnet access to plop waypoints on several anomalies I spotted on Kerbin.  All excited, I flew separate missions to a couple of them... and despite flying low and driving around... I didn't find a something.  Lots of normal stuff like trees and rocks I can drive through, but not an anomalous Something.

So - is there a trick to this?  Are the Anomalies on Kerbin sometimes just not anything?  Or do I need an additional equipment that I perhaps did not have mounted to my plane?

[bewing]

No there is no trick. It's just that your waypoints weren't quite accurate enough to get you close enough to spot them. One problem on Kerbin, however, is that all the tracking station antennas all over the planet show up as "anomalies". Those are really easy to find, but they get you nothing. The actual monoliths tend to be near mountaintops, or in deep valleys. The other easter egg anomalies tend to be quite big and easy to find.

 

[JoeSchmuckatelli]

20 minutes ago, bewing said:

No there is no trick. It's just that your waypoints weren't quite accurate enough to get you close enough to spot them. One problem on Kerbin, however, is that all the tracking station antennas all over the planet show up as "anomalies". Those are really easy to find, but they get you nothing. The actual monoliths tend to be near mountaintops, or in deep valleys. The other easter egg anomalies tend to be quite big and easy to find.

 

I figured it might be something like that.  One of the places I searched was just adjacent to a mountain range with several weird bowl like (champagne flute) depressions.  I didn't particularly want to drop my plane into one of those just to check.

I did discover that I had plopped waypoints over a fairly large structure that I'd previously found - so I deduced that they count as well.

Question: does the Narrow Band scanner help in any of this?  Or is it limited to the probe cores themselves?

[TheFlyingKerman]

The monolith are quite small and can be half below ground in some terrain setting. The rovermate is the best and narrow band scanner doesn’t help. Consider putting a probe core on the plane.

[JoeSchmuckatelli]

Thanks fellers 

[AHHans]

2 hours ago, JoeSchmuckatelli said:

Question: does the Narrow Band scanner help in any of this?

No.

IMHO the best way to search for anomalies is with a RoveMate in a polar orbit. (High enough so that you see a good fraction of the planet.) Another thing is that the waypoint markers that are set further out from the center of the Kerbnet map are more and more inaccurate and become essentially useless if you set them at the rim of the planet (if your FoV is large enough).