Clarification - can 3 man pod store 3 soil samples or only 1?

[Dave Kerbin]

I need a clarification here.

The Mk1-2 pod holds 3 Kerbals, each of whom could go on their own EVA while at a different landing zone and collect a soil sample and EVA report, with the intention of returning them to Kerbin. However up until now I've been reading that it is '1 report of each type' stored in a pod.

Does this mean that when Bob re-enters the pod after collecting soil from landing site #2, it will ask to overwrite the soil sample collected by Bill at site #1?

Or does a three man pod treat the reports as 'soil sample for seat 1' and 'soil sample for seat 2'?

Edited October 23, 2013 by Dave Kerbin

[Sirine]

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If there are 3 pods, then it should be somethings like return 3 same sample. Science points received will be reduce each sample.

If there are only 1 pods for 3 crews, only 1 same sample is store-able.

                        Science Points Recived
test number          SC-9001               Mystery Goo
                recover   transmit      recover   transmit
totals          384.8     384.6         198       197.9

1               275       55            110       44
2               78.6      47.1          48.9      34.2
3               22.4      40.4          21.7      26.6
4               6.4       34.6          9.7       20.7
5               1.8       29.7          4.3       16.1
6               0.5       25.4          1.9       12.5
7               0.1	  21.8          0.8       9.7
8               0	  18.7          0.4       7.6
9                         16            0.2       5.9
10                        13.7          0.1       4.6
11                        11.8          0         3.6
12                        10.1                    2.8
13                        8.6                     2.2
14                        7.4                     1.7
15                        6.4                     1.3
16                        5.4                     1
17                        4.7                     0.8
18                        4                       0.6
19                        3.4                     0.5
20                        2.9                     0.4
21                        2.5                     0.3
22                        2.2                     0.2
23                        1.9                     0.2
24                        1.6                     0.1
25                        1.4                     0.1

Edited October 23, 2013 by Sirine

[Sirrobert]

You can store 1 sample of each biome.

Since only the Mun and Kerbin have biomes, that's the only places is't relavent

[Fr3Runn3r]

The are no storage differences between the capsules as I'm aware. Each can take 1 bit of research from each biome (aka soil and EVA) for as many biomes as you want and just one crew report

Edited October 23, 2013 by Fr3Runn3r

[Dave Kerbin]

I see. So even a 1 man pod could store samples from multiple biomes.

[kurja]

You can store 1 sample of each biome.

Since only the Mun and Kerbin have biomes, that's the only places is't relavent

except with missions where player lands on more than one body, say, Ike and Duna

[SargeRho]

Eve also has 2 biomes: Ocean and Land. I think Laythe as well.

[Dave Kerbin]

Eve also has 2 biomes: Ocean and Land. I think Laythe as well.

That's good to know, I've got a mission enroute to Eve that is carrying two descent probes for the planet with the idea that one would target water and one land. I also have a Gilly probe that can hop from one place to another, since Gilly is probably one biome it may end up not doing anything useful after the first landing though it adds role playing.

[Kerbart]

You can store 1 sample of each biome.

Since only the Mun and Kerbin have biomes, that's the only places is't relavent

Every body has a biome, Mün and Kerbin are the only ones with multiple biomes (and apparently even that doesn’t hold up).

[Oddible]

But, you can transmit 3 samples back from 3 kerbals without having to take them all out on a second EVA. It ain't much but there's that.