SESEOR Munbase- A pictorial Mission Report- Update 5/7/14

As you may recall, SESEOR has been a long standing part of the ongoing mission to fully explore the Mun. Recently, our highly trained astronauts have been progressively preparing the base for its modular construction. This is the base at current:

At current, the Crew consists of Scientists and Engineers. A few remain from the KerMun Lander Mk 4R "Voyager"

Rhyunix · May 25, 2013

Well it seems thats that! The board for SESEOR have read the votes from the public and have given the go ahead for an investment for a base core for the base itself. The Module movers (the cra-b's) will come later

Updates on the core are coming

(note: following new ideas from the SESEOR research team, all construction has been classified and all work on the Base has been suspended until we understand our new technologies we have)

(note: the base needs a name!)

Rhyunix · May 28, 2013

Touchdown!

That's right ladies and gentlemen, SESEOR has just seen a new module landing. Due to unusual leg movements, several days have been cancelled due to levitating modules (don't ask. just don't):

Utilizing the new senior docking port in some weird combo, we made the base core

Rhyunix · June 12, 2013

Such little activity!

Hey guys, I'm back, no I'm not dead and this thread is still alive, there will be posts this weekend i promise

Rhyunix · June 18, 2013

Unfortunately, I wasn't able to get some images of the work... yet. I did this today because it turned out I was far to busy on the weekend

The Rover, Arka, 80% solar powered touched down a fair distance from the base. Still in control, KSC handed over control to the base team which began tests to make sure it was in good condition. Test completed, the Arka was left to charge and for a new area to explore

Rhyunix · June 19, 2013

Good news and bad news:

After roaming around the craters of the sub equatorial plateau, the sun dipped behind a cliff and temporarily took away light and power. Unable to steer, or see, the Arka probe valiantly flung itself over the crater it was studying. Out of control, the Arka probe careered into a dip and subsequently broke up into many pieces which in turn made a wonderful fireworks display

Here are some images of the liftoff to arrival:

Rhyunix · June 27, 2013

Its a go for launch

Primary Expedition Team : Tomtrey, Newbree & Flt Cm Jerlin - Expedition 1 [Exp. Juno]

A intrepid crew of scientists are on platform here today at KSC!

The First true Kerbalnaut Expeditionary members will be taking off from the KSC launchpad!

Its a go for launch.... Newbree, Tomtrey and Jerlin are onboard this enormous craft

T-5.....

4......

3....

2......

1......

Ignition

Liftoff!

Edited June 27, 2013 by Rhyunix

Rhyunix · June 27, 2013

Up, Up and.... Away?

As the 2nd Stage lifts the rocket away, ground crew begin trajectory assessments: Green for now.

The ascent stage has done its job and is discarded after its final elliptical orbit burn for the next orbit TMI burn window

The CSM, small but powerful fires up its engines and propels the explorers to the Mun

Transfer of Crew to LM, orbital inclination burn and deceleration result with the lander un-docking, prepared for landing

Coming over the Ridge to the crater that is adjacent to the SESEOR Mun-base's location

5000 Meters, preparing for Descent

Odo · June 27, 2013

Show us the rest! :sealed:

Rhyunix · June 27, 2013

Touchdown

Primary Crew, Expedition 1 [Exp. Juno]

Jerlin & Tomtrey steered the L6 lander "Corona" to a plateau on the surface of the Mun! Exciting news indeed!

The Crater the landed next to, "Corona Crater" is about 12.5 Km in diameter. You can see the Base postion; A small darkened area on the northern tip of Corona Crater, a plateau between some another crater ridge.

Jerlin Dismounts his craft and prepares the rover for Exp. Juno

Rhyunix · June 27, 2013

Corona Crater, Jerlin's Ridge - Primary Crew 1st Trip [Exp. Juno]

Tomtrey and Jerlin, Primary Crew, on their first drive with the new rover AND first Trip.

They observed several rocks near the landing site:

Rover Trials complete, first observations underway

Tomtrey, Geo-scientist of the mission, he studies the rocks age and how it got there

Map of the Trip

A little card home would be nice...

Jerlin and co stop to observe a rising sun. Images are sent to KSC from the rover to KSC via the Lander then the CSM

Higher up the ridge - Jerlin ponders on the location's name:

Jerlin: "I don't know what it is - a ridge to a flat bottomed crater would suggest that the land was mountainous, yet there are few hills apart from this one"

Tomtrey: "What are you rambling about man?!"

"What should we call it?"

"What should you call it you mean? I don't know Jerlin, think of something"

Jerlin ponders, Tomtrey drives on

Jerlin: "Beautiful... tranquil and calm"

Tomtrey stops talking to KSC "thought of a name?"

"Myself..."

"Yourself... yourself ridge?!"

"No! Jerlin ridge"

"Y'know, it kinda has a ring to it... we'll stick with that"

Tomtrey taps his helmet, then acknowledges some conversation from KSC. He then continues the ascent

Tomtrey: "Smile..."

Jerlin: "Its flipping mesmerizing"

" Really..." Drifts over to Jerlin "It is a breath taker.... come on"

Jerlin and Tomtrey with the rover and Flag

Tomtrey and Jerlin continue traveling across Jerlin's Ridge towards SESEOR Mun-Base

Glints of the White panels of the base can be seen. Tomtrey and Jerlin can now see their new home

[Exp. Juno] - 1st Trip: Complete

Edited June 28, 2013 by Rhyunix

Rhyunix · June 28, 2013

Mount Doodby - Primary Crew 2nd Trip [Exp. Juno]

This trip, we went from the SESEOR Mun-base to the nearby crater. It was a medium trip, maxing out at 6.4 km away from Base

The trip began not far from the Base itself as the map will illustrate. A small group of rocks of significantly metallic composition were thoroughly examined:

Arriving at the Rock group which Tomtrey Believes are scattered Asteroid remnants

Tomtrey and Jerlin take samples of one of the boulder-sized rocks

Tomtrey: "In the light the rock glints" motions to Jerlin who's daydreaming and looks bored out of his mind "get some light on this sucker"

Jerlin: "on it"

"Marvelous"

The rock is lit up by a illuminating aura that engulfs half the rock. Tomtrey takes samples and scans them with his portable scientific equipment, them puts them in a sample bag

Next rock, bear in mind these were only 25 m away from each other

Tomtrey lighting up a sample hes taking

Next stop, a trio of rocks collected together on a plateau in the crater. Tomtrey notes that they have rolled and have therefore dug up several layers of Mun rock with their descent

Moving back up the ridge to drive towards the Mountain

After crawling up the mild angled slopes of Mt Doodby, 2878 meters above the Mun's would be sea level, the crew leave a flag as a object of their achievement.

On the return back

Primary Crew 2nd Trip [Exp. Juno] complete

Rhyunix · June 29, 2013

Corona Crater, Primary Crew 3rd Trip [Exp. Juno]

(Image Heavy)

As the Primary Crew conquers one goal, they taste curiosity. Unsatisfied, they leave for one more trip.

They leave for the vast Corona Crater.

On approach, they realize that the crater has very steep walls and their descent will be bumpy

"Jerlin, hold onto something"

"Why?"

Rover jolts across ripples of regolith - Jerlin is nearly thrown out as regolith flings past his helmet

"I said hold on!"

After descending, they went left towards the dip mentioned on the map. They climbed a 30 degree hill, taking samples of the rocks on its slope.

Samples were taken of many of the rocks for data on there solar exposure

Sampling was taken on the shaded and exposed boulder-sides

Jerlin Captured an interesting image with the Tripod Camera

They summit-ed to a mesmerizing view on all sides:

Overlooking Corona Crater

The ridge's end

The dip towards Mt Doodby

& The SESEOR Mun-base Plateau

Another nice view

The ascent/descent track

On their way down into the lower point of Corona Crater, a peculiar rock was spotted by Jerlin:

Jerlin: "What the deuce...."

Tomtrey, who'd been analyzing samples from the ridge for solar absorbing minerals, glanced up

"What is up with that one?"

"Dude, its levitating!"

"No its not."

"But I can see the bottom..."

"Jerlin, you have been stumped by a illusion from a rock"

"but...but"

Tomtrey disembarks the rover whilst Jerlin stammers, then mumbles to himself as they prepare the science equipment

Few more samples on the slope

Again sampling both light and dark sides; Tedious as it might look, it gives interesting results (Authors note :sticktongue: Its not that tedious - its pretty calming)

Tomtrey: "Fascinating" Turns away from the boulder to Jerlin "take a look!"

Jerlin: "what"

"The results - we can locate specific areas additional benefit on the base plateau with a simple algorithm and this data"

"Dude.... what did you say?"

"We can save energy" Puts screen away "That's not really the interesting bit though. The interesting bit is that the dating we can do - the solar rays have made sure that no extrodinary forms of energy can access the inner layer of the rock- we can figure out the makeup of the meteor that hit the Mun and when."

"Yea...."

Again, they descend into the Crater

The rovers on-board crew camera takes this photograph

The flag is planted by Jerlin in the Crater at the lower point they could safely reach. The plaque reads:

This flag was planted on the 29/6/13 by Primary Crew Cdr Jerlin. May the efforts of his team continue to inspire ever more imaginative ideas

Flag planted, they follow a windy route and decide to miss the smaller hemisphere to their left capped off by Jerlin's ridge as it was covered by the 1st trip

On their way back to base:

Looking back

Another on-board camera capture

Arriving Back:

A significant amount of both geological and Scientific data was gathered in the exploration of Corona Crater. Analysis of the data shows that the Crater ridges are significantly more exposed to the sunlight as the rocks in the crater are full of solar wind particles. Many samples of the rocks were taken. The data on the exposure levels could significantly aid placement of solar farms for SESEOR Mun-base itself. Overall, Primary Crew's 3rd Trip was a success.

Edited February 10, 2014 by Rhyunix

Rhyunix · June 30, 2013

Anyone any ideas on how to get this to the Mun?

Rhyunix · July 4, 2013

Due to the absence of myself due to vacation, SESEOR will be dormant for Three weeks - In the mean time, you can observe the images that Exp. Juno Collected.

Rhyunix · July 30, 2013

"Vacations over folks! I hear that my scientists have been hard at work?"

Shuffling of feet and head scratching

"We did make some new parts"

"And"

More Shuffling

"It makes your One meter connectors obsolete"

"Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!"

Kerbals Hide

Rhyunix · July 30, 2013

The Mun terrain overhaul has buried most of my work so SESEOR will have to be cleaned up. A lot. My flags are underground but my mission lives on!

Edited August 2, 2013 by Rhyunix

Rhyunix · July 30, 2013

With the new overhaul of the terrain, finding the new residence of SESEOR Munbase was difficult. But we found a medium-sized, flat area on top of the ridge from the 2nd trip in Exp. Juno. Unfortunately, one of our rovers broke so progress is slow - we may find a better place but its really difficult

Rhyunix · August 1, 2013

A Little sneek peak at our new view

Setting up at this time, a new expedition will commence soon!

Rhyunix · August 2, 2013

I think that I put the hints and tips from Umlux and his Mun Program to good use:

The flag behind is a design by Levelord

Edited August 2, 2013 by Rhyunix
Sorry Umlux, spelt you wrong

Rhyunix · August 2, 2013

The first Module Post-Overhaul is down! Its the same as the Module above, next launch, a solar farm

Rhyunix · August 8, 2013

Solar Farm Launch

A new design, a new launch vehicle, new launch time. Perfect.

Whats that?

Right on Que

After a orbital insertion, TMI and orbital burns, we go sub-orbital right down onto the Munbase

The shallow part of the crater, the rim isn't much of a climb so its easy to get out

On the surface - the crew are from the science team consisting of Billy-Bobnand (center) and Corcan

Big things are coming, stay tuned!

Rhyunix · August 8, 2013

Bloopers

Love the new Hitchhiker interiors! So does Billy and Corcan

Billy, admiring the new home

Corcan, who has the best view, staring at the cosmos

Who's king - Billy-Bobnand of course!

SirJodelstein · August 8, 2013

Cool project, i will be following your mission update reports. I really like the overview maps from the buggy tracks. Good luck with your base reincarnation

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