Thick Atmospheres Block the Ground

[Tristen_KSP]

On my Eve lander mission that somehow ended up underwater, I had trouble deciding where I wanted to land. I couldn't see what was terrain and what was ocean. I also saw Matt Lowne having the same issue on his massive Eve Rover video.

 

So, I was hoping if there could be some sort of toggle in the tracking station/map view that allows us to hide the atmosphere, or set it to a certain opacity if possible. Or, add a little icon next to the "impact imminent" indicator on your trajectory on the map view, that shows whether you are headed for a splashdown or a landing.

 

Has anyone else considered this?

[dr.phees]

We simply need Scansat. I hope they will implement that without relying on a mod. Those dense clouds make it necessary in-game, anyway.

[pandaman]

I understand the problem (reducing the cloud coverage/quality in settings might help you), but I disagree with 'turning off' the atmosphere.

I see cloud cover as one of the things you need to plan for and work around, and it helps make planets present different  challenges when otherwise  very similar too.

As @dr.phees said, appropriate surface scanning tools would be the way to tackle this IMO .

[The Aziz]

It's part of gameplay now. Eve is supposed to be hard, so there we are. None of the Venus landers, or Titan one, knew where they were going to end up.

Agreed on the scanning stuff, but that's it.