Night Science

[horndgmium]

I think it would be nice to be able to redo experiments at night on whatever celestial body and get different results than during the day. Biomes change drastically from day to night, especially those without atmospheres.

[LethalDose]

I can definitely see the logic in this for the thermometer. It's a maybe for the crew reports, EVA reports, and barometer. For the seismometer, gravimeter, surface sample, materials bay and goo, I don't think it would make sense. And all of these only when on the surface.

I can see this as a way of using time as a "poor man's" method of creating new biomes, which I kinda like. It also provides a reason to actually stay on the surface of a body for a while instead of touching down, sciencing, and going straight back up.

[Vaporo]

Not only do I think that we should be able to get multiple readings (on certain experiments) for both night and day, I think that this idea could be expanded to things such as different seasons (would be caused by distance from the sun) and different weather patterns (for atmospheric planets).

I think that it would make the game so much more Immersive to be able to get different readings from the same biome, and it would also encourage more long-term missions to evaluate different seasonal conditions.

[Tex]

different seasons (would be caused by distance from the sun)

But seasons are caused by axial tilt, not distance.

I do like the idea of "night science", and agree that it'd be a great reason to stay on a planetary body for a bit longer. I can go to the Mun with a craft full of experiments and be off of it again in about forty seconds XD

[Vaporo]

But seasons are caused by axial tilt, not distance.

I do like the idea of "night science", and agree that it'd be a great reason to stay on a planetary body for a bit longer. I can go to the Mun with a craft full of experiments and be off of it again in about forty seconds XD

In real life, that is true. However, we don't have axial tilt in KSP(which we should have, by the way). What we do have is elliptical orbits, which can cause "seasons" on planets that have enough eccentricity to their orbits in real life. (Pluto is theorized to have a seasonal methane atmosphere, depending on its distance from the sun.) So, Kerbin would not have seasons, but Moho very well could.

[LethalDose]

But seasons are caused by axial tilt, not distance.

I do like the idea of "night science", and agree that it'd be a great reason to stay on a planetary body for a bit longer. I can go to the Mun with a craft full of experiments and be off of it again in about forty seconds XD

I don't know if you'd want to do this on the Mun... It's tidally locked. If you landed at local "noon", you'd have to wait until it had orbited more than a 1/4 of the way around Kerbin to get a "night" sample.

But otherwise, yes, exactly!

[Superfluous J]

I don't know if you'd want to do this on the Mun... It's tidally locked. If you landed at local "noon", you'd have to wait until it had orbited more than a 1/4 of the way around Kerbin to get a "night" sample.

But otherwise, yes, exactly!

That just gives us a reason to timewarp pinpoint land on the sunny side of the terminator right at sunset.

[MR4Y]

That would be useful. I dislike how the career mode of KSP artificially forces you to explore biomes to gather currency to unlock new parts.