I've touched ground on another planet! Again!

[G'th]

So, if some of you might remember, I recently landed something on Duna for the first time. Welp, today I've marked the same achievement, except this time it was Eve.

Playing around with US probes I decided to send Magellan (Makellan) to Eve, using a Saturn 1C rocket. And it was glorious. It was real nice to see Eve up close and not in the tracking center.

Now, originally I just intended the probe to just be an orbit and then deorbit (just like Magellan actually did), but little did I know that US probes are stupidly non-fragile. Despite my highly negative periapse (it was almost a straight free fall down the planet. I hadn't let lose my Centaur-E stage so I used its remaining propellant and half of that in Makellan to make sure the probe would be destroyed) the thing managed to survive entry into Eve's atmosphere.

And indeed, it survived well enough that it slowed down to the point where I was able to use the remaining propellant to try and make a last minute suicide burn. And low and behold, I've touched the surface of Eve for the first time.

Fairly awesome I must say.

[Space Peanut]

Awesome! Congrats. Great work!

Normally I just slap a parachute on my Eve probes, the atmosphere is so dense thats all it really takes to land safely.

So fun though that you not only did it for yourself but had a bit of an adventure doing it in a probe that wasn't really designed to do it!!!