Re-entry effect fly by

[Ryan.]

I've been trying for a few hours to do this now, so I want to see if anyone else can as well. I have a rocket landed on Eve and I've been trying to fly another rocket high enough to have a re-entry effect but low enough to visibly see it from the landed rocket. I decided Eve because the purple sky with the orange re-entry burn would look cool.

Challenge is to do this and post a screen shot. Doesn't matter what planet or moon.

[SmallChange]

Going to be a little hard trying to get re-entry effects within 2.5km of the surface.

[Giggleplex777]

Going to be a little hard trying to get re-entry effects within 2.5km of the surface.

You can't.

[saik0]

You can't.

Actually I think it would be possible, set the flyby craft Pe to fly low overhead and control the landed craft. It won't encounter atmospheric drag until within physics range of your controlled craft, at which point it will be going fast!

[SmallChange]

You can't.

Was trying to soften the blow a little bit

[rryy]

You have to be under about 2.2 kilometers from the landed craft just to see the flying one, at best. At that low of an altitude, you would just be seeing the Mach effects, and because of Eve's thick atmosphere, it would be hard to get up to that speed anyway.

[ZingidyZongxxx]

It would probably still be impossible, but what if you were on the highest peak of Eve?

[Giggleplex777]

It would probably still be impossible, but what if you were on the highest peak of Eve?

The atmospheric pressure is still higher than Kerbin's.

[foamyesque]

Maybe on Duna instead?