What is you favorite astronomical body in KSP?

[TannerBJ]

What is you favorite astronomical body in KSP? Feel free to provide an explanation along with your choice, you may just motivate some KSP players to go the extra mile (or should I say millions of kilometers) and visit Eeloo or the moons of Jool to see what they're missing out on!

[KingPhantom]

i really like minmus in the kerbin system. but out of the kerbin system duna is the place to be. nice to reach and as easy as mun with enough detaV... the red atmosphere and the different red colors of the hills rocks . look for the dark spot in orbit view. its around 0° inclanation.

i also like the purple feeling of eve. love to race my rover there

[TannerBJ]

i also like the purple feeling of eve. love to race my rover there

I feel as if Eve is the only planet that has enough gravity for more rovers to function on, besides Kerbin. +1 Rep, for your engineering skills.

[Frank_G]

I like the joolian system with all the moons. Very challenging destination with lots of space to explore and explode.

[General Rarity]

I love Duna, but I also like Jool. Because of this:

[KingPhantom]

try the following: disable the torch on the probe of your rover. the torche will spin the rover. and don't use the wheels straight. rotate them to the outside. so the rover looks like a spider.

the following rover works also perfect on duna (of course you have to be carefull every time. but it works)

[DeepSpaceDutch]

I voted one of Jool moons, because Laythe.

For me it's like the tropical get-a-way of the Kerbal universe. That bounty beach place that not many people visit

[CG_Kerbin]

I voted for kerbin because it's the home of the kerbal's <-this little guy

[technicalfool]

try the following: disable the torch on the probe of your rover.

The other method of course being to use docking mode instead of staging mode while driving the rover around. The torque from the pod or any reaction wheels will then serve to try and keep your wheels flat on the floor. Or at least, to keep your rover's orientation. Trying this down a hill on Minmus may result in surprisingly stable two-wheeled driving.

[MartGonzo]

Definitely Eve by a large margin, it's the only body that remains 'mysterious'

thick pink clouds observe a surface I have never visited.

(since I installed Deadly Re-entry)

[Red Iron Crown]

Laythe. The prettiest of Jool's moons, atmosphere suitable for colonization and jet engines, easy access to other interesting bodies. That and watching Jool rise from Laythe orbit is breathtaking.

[dryer_lint]

Kerbin.

It feels so... home-ish

Moho, Eve, and Duna are pretty unique

Jool is fun to... "land on". So is Kerbol.

Jool's moons are cool, especially Laythe.

Eeloo is far away, so that's neat.

Dres sucks.​

[merendel]

I like the jool system. Theres alot going on in there and its really easy to get around when you know what your doing.

[RexKramer]

Not sure why Mun or Minimus aren't listed. They're the bodies with the most biomes to explore.

[Sylandro]

Minmus and Dres.

They both have pretty good views. And Minmus is pretty good for goofing off. One time, i zoomed across one of the flats in a rover before

[TythosEternal]

I'll go with Minimus--I feel like it's such an overlooked charmer. Easy you reach, easy to land and take off, easy to explore and conduct experiments, etc. It also has a really neat mix of surface textures! Minimus is a unique spot, and Squad was very creative with putting it into the game.

[moogoob]

Minmus. I have a small showroom of ion and conventional landers on one of the flat areas.

[TythosEternal]

My four-year-old daughter being obsessed with the movie Frozen, I told her that Minimus was the ice-and-snow-covered planet where Elsa lives. Needless to say, now it's her favorite place in KSP, too (well, right after Duna, because red's her favorite color and nothing's more important than that, right?)

Follow-up: I just noticed, for the first time, that I've been spelling Minmus wrong (specifically, with a second 'i'), pretty much forever. I take some comfort in noticing here that I'm not the only one. =p

Edited August 14, 2014 by TythosEternal

[No one]

Definitely Dres. It's where I made my first manned landing outside of Kerbin's SOI, and also I always seem to have a launch window there whenever I want to go.

Reason why: Process of elimination.

Moho: Takes a ....ton of delta-v to get to, high surface gravity. Orbital rendezvous is really helpful on Moho but unnecessary on Dres/Eeloo.

Eve: Obvious reasons.

Gilly: The gravity's so low that you wish it were higher. Also the topography makes landing annoying.

Duna: Scary atmosphere. I still haven't done a manned duna landing.

Ike: Would probably also have been a good candidate but a moon is just sort of less impressive than a (dwarf) planet. Also it seems sort of wimpy to go to Duna and only land on its moon.

Laythe: Scary atmosphere

Tylo: Obvious reasons.

Vall: Same as Ike, but also requires more delta-v to get to. Also, it seems sort of wimpy to go to Jool and then only explore one moon rather than all of them, or at least the easier 3.

Bop/Pol: Same as Gilly except easier to intercept, also same problem as Vall.

Eeloo: Another good candidate, my second manned landing outside of Kerbin's SOI. Similar to Dres but a slightly higher surface gravity and lots more delta-v to get to.

[Red Iron Crown]

Definitely Dres. <snip>

Pffft. No one likes Dres.

[Renegrade]

I'm with all the pro-Minmus people. It's cool, minty freshness, it's low-gravity, flat-plains closeness... Stooging around above the planes with ion or RCS-based craft. I just wish it weren't on an inclined orbit.

Pffft. No one likes Dres.

Yeah, ew Dres. Let's blow it up, then we can have an asteroid belt to explore (I think Jool's been slacking in the making-Dres-into-an-asteroid-belt department to be honest).

[Red Iron Crown]

Yeah, ew Dres. Let's blow it up, then we can have an asteroid belt to explore (I think Jool's been slacking in the making-Dres-into-an-asteroid-belt department to be honest).

--------------> The Joke

Your head

Read the post I quoted again.

[zarakon]

Laythe

+++

[Poryy]

Folion is pretty cool. I can fly planes on it forever because of the oxygen atmosphere, and then go visit some of it's moons! The only problem is that it's further out than Jool...

[Frank_G]

...and watching Jool rise from Laythe orbit is breathtaking.

Indeed... When Jool rises on the horizon, its time to get a hot cup of tea, lean back and enjoy the majestic view.