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I don't think something like this has been suggested yet?

My suggestion is to be able to place a marker on a planet/moon surface (much like the landing markers MechJeb uses). Except for each manouver node, it will show that same marker in the appropriate colour (equal to the manouver node's colour) of where the marker will be at that node (since the planet rotates of course).

Maybe the same is done for an "impact" (your orbit intersects the surface), which is treated as a manouver node for the sake of the marker.

What I'm NOT suggesting is that the planet surface itself shows where everything is in the future. Like, if you hover over a manouver node or something, the planet will seem to rotate to show how it will ook then. That would tend to become very confusing and ugly.

Having this would make it easier to figure out where you will actually land (assuming no atmosphere, but hey what would be the challenge otherwise :P) while still keeping a fairly easy-to-read display. Possibly it also has applications for putting stuff in geosyncronous orbit, but since I've never tried I wouldn't really know.

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