u/AgentIndependent306

I recently landed a proper rover on Duna. Initially, I manually drove it around, and later I learnt how to use the mechjeb rover autopilot to make long journeys possible.

Now, idk why but my rover keeps flipping over on almost every jump. Like at first it gets launched into the air (during which it is stable), but upon landing, the wheels make the rover bounce with a great force for some reason, and this bouncing never stops. By the time it dies down, the rover has already lost its solar panels along with equipment that was sticking out. I then have to click on an earlier save and restart the drive.

Another one is when the rover gradually starts sinking into the ground while driving and then the wheels hit some kind of invisible wall, leading to the rover's destruction.

The rover currently on Duna has already had 2 flipping incidents, one of which took away one of the solar panels and the scanning arm, and the other fortunately did nothing. Still, this means I can't drive the rover at high speeds or on steep slopes for a long time as one solar panel cannot provide enough charge, and I lost the ability to scan meteorites and blueberries (though those scans were already done before so not really a big deal). Ik I should have included reaction wheels, but idt even they could have fixed the issue.

Landing in the Eve night hit different. Had 'Blinding Lights' playing in my head as BGM.

Tbh driving on Eve is a lot easier due to the increased gravity. On the Mun, I constantly have to worry about the rover taking off and landing the wrong way resulting in something breaking.

Finally managed to make a controlled rover landing onto Duna's surface using my improved landing design. Had to drive to the other side of the mountain to get to the anomaly.

Basically the transfer stage makes a deorbit burn, jettisons the descent capsule, and gets into orbit again to begin its relay duties. The descent capsule flies through the atmosphere. Once subsonic, the fairing and heat shield are discarded and parachute descent begins. The parachute cluster is discarded after landing.

Now, idk what I do with the anomaly i just discovered.

Was my first ever solo hike, did it a week ago. Used AllTrails (the app is goated) and the posted park map to plan out an 11 km route. The main highlight was walking on the rocky (unintended Hail Mary reference) Hilton falls side trail (my casual running shoes took the beating well), and Hilton falls itself, including the ruins around it. Got to interact with a few hikers on route, and one of them offered to give me some bug spray (which was a relief because the mosquitoes were annoying af).

What's strange is that the weather forecast predicted a rainy hike, yet the sky was too empty for that, and the air was hot, and as I predicted, it did not rain. Would have gone regardless as that was one of the few optimal days of my academic term.

P.S. A 4 year old midrange Samsung isn't the best phone to click pictures with. Reddit compresses some pictures in a bad way too.

P.S. The route i posted isn't the exact route I followed, but an existing one i decided to make some modifications to.

Basically my first fighter jet to make it to orbit.

Unlocking Ion engines gave me about 7000 delta V. Just enough to transfer to Moho, and get captured into Moho orbit.

To know how tiny this probe is, take a look at the antenna (the one on the side, the one on the top is a radar altimeter). Nothing is tweakscaled here.

I was maintaining a rover speed of around 10 m/s in this hilly biome. Now, my rover took air a couple of times because of how undulating the terrain was.

At one point the rover seemed to be driving through air, then it began to sink into the ground, even drove through it. Then, it hit some invisible wall and blew up. 2 hours of effort gone in a second.

Genuinely cracked me up

Planning to send this drone to Eve. Jets won't work there, and I'm too lazy to integrate props into this design, so put effort into making the docking port drive throttlable by adding in pistons. Shit works like magic.

Edit: This isn't cheating.

Attached 2 docking ports facing each other inside a cargo bay.

Difficult part here is maintaining speed as the force isn't that high to begin with. Still, got to make this tiny plane.

Am really loving the SCANSat mod

Edit: I successfully managed to fly through the canyon

Time to do some weird shit with it now that I can dock without any assists

Both of these have very similar stats, and I can only pick one to keep developing further.

Reminds me of the 1973 Concorde eclipse flight over West Africa