Thursday, September 4, 2014

Kerbal Space Program: To Eve (Venus)!

For my next interplanetary mission, I decided to send my Laythe craft to Eve, the KSP equivalent of Venus. This mission was a bit different than my previous missions because, unlike the previous two, my target planet is closer to the sun that Kerbin. this means I had to do my Hohmann transfer in reverse.

As I descended toward the planet, however, I realized that I forgot to account for the composition of the air: Eve's thick, purple atmosphere contains no oxygen. This means that the air breathing jet engine that worked on Laythe would not work here. As a result, I had to rely on luck and try to glide myself to the nearest land.


However, I managed to make it to an island just before I hit the ground.


I deployed my parachutes, and I was able to add Eve to my list of visited celestial bodies!


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