Jool Landing Megathread

[MedwedianPresident]

The rules are simple: just enter the Atmosphere or "Land" on Jool and post pictures.

[Warringer]

Damnit... And I forgot to make pictures when I landed...

[christheman200]

I landed a few days ago and survived, it has a surface!

[MrPwner]

I threw this thing into it's atmosphere out of curiosity:

Long way down

Almost there..

When the altimeter reached 0, it started going back up and the view would rotate up a bit every half a second.

Then the thing fell apart and one after another, the parts started exploding.

No real surface for me

[generalred256]

Well, the devs had to start somewhere when implementing the "gas giant". I have a feeling that will be fixed at a later date, unless this was on purpose.

[MrPwner]

It's not something that bothers me personally, it's just funny.

[trbinsc]

It doesn't really have a surface, it just has a point where the atmosphere is so dense that your rocket is buoyant. I did this with a plane, but I forgot to take pictures.

[Exclipse]

The devs did a great job actually.

Gas giants are so large that their gravity turns gas into a solid, this means you will have a very smooth transition down to the "surface" but when you approach this point or reach it the pressure will be so great that everything would be crushed and compacted.

While in realy life you would probably not have explosions because the pressure being so high, things would be completely destroyed.

[-Gamah]

Am I doin it rite?

[princessjane]

[zapy97]

i took the tardis there... it didn't get crushed, but floated 1m-ish down that cause it is so light

[xtoro]

I landed on Jool, but it wasn't really landing. I kinda just floated there not moving anymore, but I was able to spin my pod around a bit. This was in a 1-man pod with chutes. I couldn't EVO though, it was like I was stuck underground. The graphics were all glitchy and weird...

[Blue]

I wonder what would be the safest but also deepest part of the atmosphere you could descend to, while still being able to accelerate back up to an orbital velocity and rendezvous (for returning to Kerbin.)

Like a surface-sample mission, except it's an atmospheric sample.

[Zeroignite]

I stuck an airship base on Jool back in 0.18

KAS anchors are on the surface (and not exploding), while the base itself is a couple hundred meters above datum altitude. Descending took a looong time.