A Landing Site at Duna

[rodion]

In a few minutes I'll have a lander in orbit around Duna. I originally figured I would enter a near-equatorial orbit and just drop the craft down on the first convenient patch I could see, but it turns out due to accident that I'm only a small-ish correction away from a total polar orbit, so I basically have the complete pick of landing sites. The thing is, now I don't know where to go. What regions of Duna are most curious or attractive from the ground? I don't have any mobility gear (rovers, long range flyers etc.) so it's mostly going to be strolling, planting flags and peering vacantly at rocks.

Edited September 11, 2013 by rodion

[Rage097]

The south pole is home to a pyramid that gives off a SSTV signal. If you want the easiest landing, aim for the darker patches of Duna, those are close or at sea level. so you can actually trust the altimeter.

BEWARE SPOILERS

You can also try to find the Coords for the Kerbal head if you want to try there.

Edited September 11, 2013 by Rage097

[Vanamonde]

In the northern temperate lattitudes there's a big Mariner canyon-kind of thing. It's a good landing spot for scenery, because the bottom is almost perfectly flat, and because it's so low that the atmosphere will make parachutes work better.

[rodion]

This is all looking really nice...the crater floors on the border between the poles and equator seem like they would be good too.

The graphics anomaly at the pole where the textures come together is very clear from orbit.

[MrPopcup]

There is a mountain that is 7km high I believe ( maybe more, but not less. ) I landed on there but goddamn,, it was hard to!

after re-loading and stuff I finally managed to land, completely worth it, the view is breathtaking.

Try it out, you'll be happy, ( it's between the north Ice cap and the dunanian sand.

[rodion]

Went for one of the extremely flat, oxide-saturated looking beds that a lot of the huge vaguely canalia-like fissures radiate from. It looks like it could almost have been an ocean in older days, actually.

Thanks for your help.

Oh, gotta get the contingency sample.

[capi3101]

My understanding is that all the interesting stuff was buried underneath the surface with 0.21; I can confirm that's the case with the SSTO Pyramid (I've got a sci probe sitting right on top of the coordinates, there is no pyramid, but if I zoom into the ground I can listen to the signal). Just FYI.