A fun little guessing game!

[7499275]

Hey guys, doing career mode with a giga-crapton of mods! Came up with the idea to send a ship carrying 3 science probes, do a flyby of Duna, Laythe and drop one into the heart of Jool and collect data before the Kracken eats the probe. The probes will be outfitted with Atmosphere sensor, 2 Goo containers, 1 materials bay.

Now how much science do you guys think I can profit off this massive mission? I guess 800

[Sirine]

Massive mission = true.

Massive science = false.

Wait till 0.23 before you do this. Cause there are no Biomas (Science point) for 0.22 except for Mun and Kerbin...not even Minmus have Biomas.

How much you can get from Minmus = (same to) how much you can get from other planet as per 0.22.

[7499275]

I know that only Kerbin and the Mun have biomes but I expected some decent science.. That was a buzz kill

[Sirrobert]

I got quite alot of science from the probe I droped into Jool, atleats 500 from that one alone I think, might even have been closer to 1000

Sirine: That's very wrong. Other planets give way more than Minmus. I believe it gives more the further away it is

[SkyRender]

Unfortunately, at present science outside the Kerbin system is not particularly rewarding for the time investment. Meanwhile science done on the Mun is disproportionately valuable to all other bodies and can in fact provide almost enough science by itself to max the stock tech tree. 0.23 has its sights set on helping fix some of this problem, I believe, but I'm not certain just yet.

[7499275]

Whoa if the mun can provide that much can I get a biome map for it?

[Sirine]

I know that only Kerbin and the Mun have biomes but I expected some decent science.. That was a buzz kill

Sorry for that. But you can always looking forward for 0.23...it is very near...less than 2 weeks?

[Mr Tegu]

Idk, did a sort of Jool 5 for my 6th flight, flew by all of the moons (and jool) transmitting data and then landed on Laythe before returning home, it unlocked most of the remaining tree in a single mission, I think you need to send a kerbal to make it worthwhile though.

You will certainly gain considerable science from the mission but throwing a probe into Jool probably wont generate any more science than a flyby would.

Edited December 9, 2013 by Mr Tegu
send, not end the kerbal, oops

[SkyRender]

Whoa if the mun can provide that much can I get a biome map for it?

Sure. (Note: I did not make this! It's just posted to my site because I couldn't find the post where it first showed up.)

EDIT: Ostensibly the maximum science you can get from the Mun is 12,816 (9,960 of it from surface experiments, 2,430 of it from orbital experiments that take biomes into account, and 426 of it from non-biome-specific orbital experiments). The Mun is very brokenly science-rich in 0.22.

Edited December 9, 2013 by SkyRender

[SkyRender]

EDIT: Edit screwed up and made me repost...

[Sirine]

I got quite alot of science from the probe I droped into Jool, atleats 500 from that one alone I think, might even have been closer to 1000

Sirine: That's very wrong. Other planets give way more than Minmus. I believe it gives more the further away it is

Sorry for that semi-wrong info. But it just not worth it to go that 'far' away.

I believe the origin of the above map are from here.

[Sirine]

FYI...Extra little info...credit for someone who discover it...(not me)

[Sirrobert]

Sorry for that semi-wrong info. But it just not worth it to go that 'far' away.

I believe the origin of the above map are from here.

It might not be if you are doing it purely to grind science, but some of us play for the challange of it. For fun

[Taki117]

I know my first transmission from the surface of Laythe (I did not do any on the various fly-by's) netted me 1228 science (With all the instruments)so, assuming you mine Laythe for science you could easily unlock any additional nodes from mods.

[DexterBelgium]

To be honest, while farming biomes of Mun might be the "easier" way, I found sending a probe far out is a very very good (and easy, if your definition of easy includes the fact that throwing more boosters at a problem is physically (for the player) a lot easier than landing on Mun) way to handle science needs.

Don't forget the science multiplier that applies when doing experiments around other planets, meaning that anything you do in space around Duna is worth 7 times what it's worth in space around Kerbin. Laythe 9 times, Jool 7 times (same for atmosphere of Jool btw) (from the wiki)

[SRV Ron]

Doing a suicide probe to Jool will have limited results due to transmission power. Solar panels, other then flat OxStats, will be ripped off. Descent, however, should be slow enough to allow transmission of data for heat, pressure, gravity, acceleration, Goo, and Science Bay before the probe goes Poof!

[Sirrobert]

Doing a suicide probe to Jool will have limited results due to transmission power. Solar panels, other then flat OxStats, will be ripped off. Descent, however, should be slow enough to allow transmission of data for heat, pressure, gravity, acceleration, Goo, and Science Bay before the probe goes Poof!

I did a suicide probe. It fell slowly enough that the panels stayd on just fine, without chutes deployed. Got a gigantic crapton of science out of it

[TechnicalK3rbal]

I got 1100 from my Jool atmospheric probe... Though it did have a laythe gravity assist so there was a bit of science from that.