Planet & Moons scientific data

[7499275]

Ever wondered what the temperature of Eeloo is at 20km above the surface? Maybe The density of Duna's atmosphere? Well your in luck, I have went around to each planet and conducted 3 experiments at different altitudes and below is what I concluded

Weight of probe = 19 tons

Average horizontal speed = 98 m/s

Moho

50km---temp = -199 --- speed = 115 --- gravity = 1.90

40km---temp = -199 --- speed = 130 --- gravity = 2.02

30km---temp = -199 --- speed = 92 --- gravity = 2.19

20km---temp = -64 --- speed = 89 --- gravity = 2.35

10km---temp = 0 --- speed = 91 --- gravity = 2.52

Eve

50km---temp = 14 --- atmosphere = 0.00049 --- speed = 95 --- gravity = 14.63

40km---temp = 23 --- atmosphere = 0.021 --- speed = 104 --- gravity = 15

30km---temp = 16 --- atmosphere = 0.081 --- speed = 115 --- gravity = 15.45

20km---temp = 37 --- atmoshpere = 0.29 --- speed = 81 --- gravity = 15.79

10km---temp = 100 --- atmosphere = 1.43 --- speed = 70 --- gravity = 16.29

Kerbin

50km---temp = -41 --- atmosphere = N/A --- speed = 174 --- gravity = 8.41

40km---temp = 1 --- atmosphere = 0.0004 --- speed = 120 --- gravity = 8.63

30km---temp = -6 --- atmosphere = 0.0012 --- speed = 89 --- gravity = 8.75

20km---temp = -41 --- atmosphere = 0.29 --- speed = 115 --- gravity = 9.23

10km---temp = 100 --- atmosphere = 1.43 --- speed =70 --- gravity = 9.25

Duna

50km---temp = -43 --- atmosphere = N/A --- speed = 116 --- gravity = 2.23

40km---temp = -40 --- atmosphere = N/A --- speed = 102 --- gravity = 2.34

30km---temp = -42 --- atmosphere = N/A --- speed = 140 --- gravity = 2.50

20km---temp = -40 --- atmosphere = 0.00032 --- speed = 130 --- gravity = 2.65

10km---temp = -34 --- atmosphere = 0.010 --- speed = 86 --- gravity = 2.80

Dres

50km---temp = -200 --- speed =127 --- gravity = 0.60

40km---temp = -199 ---speed = 130 --- gravity = 0.70

30km---temp = -199 --- speed = 112 --- gravity = 0.76

20km---temp = -199 --- speed = 105 --- gravity = 0.84

10km---temp = 0 --- speed = 84 --- gravity = 0.98

Jool

50km---temp= 0 --- atmosphere = 0.10 --- speed = 1788 --- Gravity = 7.72

40km---temp = 185 --- atmosphere = 0.27 --- speed = 1379 --- Gravity = 7.74

30km---temp = 369 --- atmosphere = 0.74 --- speed = 2221 --- gravity = 7.77

20km---temp = 324 --- atmosphere = 2.08 --- speed = 309 --- gravity = 7.80

10km---temp = 548 ---atmosphere = 5.78 --- speed = 35 --- gravity = 7.82

Eeloo

50km---temp = -43 --- speed = 130 --- gravity = 1.10

40km---temp = -40 --- speed = 120 --- gravity = 1.23

30km---temp = -37 --- speed = 129 --- gravity = 1.31

20km---temp = -35 --- speed = 120 --- gravity = 1.42

10km---temp = -30 --- speed = 44 --- gravity = 1.53

Please note, the speed changed because I was trying to maintain 100m/s and sometimes overpowered or underpowered the engines. Also, the Moons will be added in next couple of days

Jool, 10km ship blew up ( due to using hyper edit ) luckily the scientific module of the craft remained in tact long enough to record data!

Edited June 17, 2013 by 7499275

[UmbralRaptor]

The temperature variations could be interesting, though the gravity and atmosphere curves are already well known. (Oh, and the presmat barometer can't measure below 1e-4 atm, even though the tops of planetary atmospheres are ~1.5e-5 to 2e-7 atm...)

[MockKnizzle]

I'm having trouble with some of your data... The acceleration due to gravity at sea level on Kerbin is defined as 9.8m/s^2, so why then are you getting around 16m/s^2 at 20km up? I see they're the same numbers as the Eve data, did you mistakenly copy/paste?

[7499275]

Well I did not realize that... But for the temptature my procedure was to land on a planet and take off trying to sustain 100m/s which as you can tell did not go all that well for consistency

For the gravity... Yes, sorry for that I had copied all the data down into a log book and when I entered it here I did mistankenly look at Eve's gravity for 10km and 20km recordings of Kerbin!

And lastly, according to the poll you guys want moon data... Well I will go and record that this weekend with the same craft and try to maintain a little closer to 100m/s. Also the planets will be finished I'll try to get the data up Monday sometime!

Edited June 14, 2013 by 7499275

[7499275]

Edit: Updated the list with the final two planets. Moons will be available in the next coming days!

[Richy teh space man]

How can the gravity of Jool be lower at 10km then 20km ?

[7499275]

Crap, just checked my log book... I put it in wrong... Hold on one seconed going to go fix that. Thanks for pointing it out.

[Skyhawk]

It would be nice to have a list of information on planets, especially gravity and air resistance/atmospheric thickness.

[Themohawkninja]

Why is Jool's gravity so little? It has all of those moons, and such a huge SOI.

[Holo]

Jool is a gas giant, which means that it has a very low density. That means that even on the cloud tops, you are still a massive distance from its core. As gravity falls off with distance, you get the seemingly low gravity.

[numerobis]

It would be nice to have a list of information on planets, especially gravity and air resistance/atmospheric thickness.

That's on the ksp wiki already. It can be fun to discover these things in-game, but if you're going to be looking it up, just look it up in the wiki.

[Themohawkninja]

Maybe this is what a wiki is for, but it would be nice to have a sub-forum devoted to science experiments in KSP, like what you are doing here.

I myself keep wanting to figure out which solar panel is the most efficient (efficiency in this case being self-defined as electric charge per meter squared).