Seeking Munar Biomes

[GungaDin]

I'm currently orbiting Mun with a single seat Kerbal capsule. I thought that if he got out and peekd down at the various Biomes he would gain valuable EVA reports but I always seem to get the same report 'you are looking at the craters for a good place to land.' Can't I benefit my program by flying 'over' the Munar Biomes without actually landing on them?

Also - do folks notice that many posts don't seem to show up here?

[Padishar]

How high are you orbiting? To get a biome specific EVA report you need to be below a certain altitude (not sure what but the title of the report should tell you).

No, I've not made many posts but they have all come through. The first 2 or 3 posts had to wait for a moderator to approve them but they came through after a while...

Pad.

[MSHalo3Rocks]

Just to point out make sure your close maybe 30-40km off and im not even sure if they added biomes search up a biome map also it may say the same thing over and over again but check the science bar to tell how you've done

[michaelhester07]

If you have access to probe technology you can build a ship that deploys several lander probes to mark biomes. Pretty much every large crater is a biome.

[Dave Kerbin]

Some of the EVA reports (and other experiments too) have the same descriptive text, Squad is still working on filling them all out with something clever. Once you get beyond Kerbin a lot of the Goo reports just say "You observe the Goo".

The important thing to look at is the title, it will be something like "EVA Report from the space above Mun Midlands" or "EVA Report from the space above Mun's East Farside Crater". As long as those are different you are getting unique reports. You'll also know it is a unique report when you try to board your ship again; if there is already a duplicate report you'll get a message saying not all experiments can be stored and ask you if you want to dump the duplicate ones.

Also make sure you are taking EVA reports, not Crew Reports (crew reports are the ones you do while still inside the capsule). There is only one crew report for high orbit and one for low orbit.

[breakthrough]

The VOID mod adds a hud element that displays your current biome taking the guesswork out of it. Mechjeb can display biome information as well.

VOID is here

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/54533-0-22-VOID-Vessel-Orbital-Informational-Display

Mechjeb is here

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/12384-PART-0-23-Anatid-Robotics-MuMech-MechJeb-Autopilot-v2-1-1

[Space_Nomad]

A mod called SCANSat does a nice job of scanning the planets and creating a map of the biomes. Add Custom Biomes to that and all rocks have biomes to science.