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The last of the Kerbin discoverables to be noted in the Forums is located close to where the Woomerang Launch Site was in KSP1, north of the northern hemisphere peninsula that looks like Kamchatka.
Again, I use the Aeris-K3 to fly there and have three Mk16-R Parachutes for the landing. Even though this is where a Space Center used to be, I’m not expecting a runway.
It takes two hours of flight time and about half the available fuel to arrive.
Just west of the KSP1 Space Center was a very tall set of mountains with a very high peak, over 6,000 meters. Kerbin in KSP2 has a lot of mountain regions, much more than in KSP1, but those mountains don’t seem as high. And this mountain near Kamchatka, while distinctive compared to the rest of the mountain terrain, does not seem as high.
Derrie Kerman will need to climb it to be sure.
The ground at 1,450 meters above sea level has scattered chunks of snow. This represents the lower limit of the “snow line”. On Earth, the snow line, of course, varies based on climactic conditions but is generally at 4,500 meters. This scales Kerbin at around 33%, at least in this context. Higher up, there is more snow but it is not a distinct line, at least not on this mountain.
About 150 meters up the slope from the base of the snow line, the science collection region changes from Mountains to Kerb-2 Summit, even though I am far from the summit itself. There is still a lot of climbing ahead.
There is no upper tree line, again not on this mountain, as there is a tall pine near the summit on a saddle. On Earth, the tree line would be somewhere between 3,500 and 4,000 meters above sea level, scaled here to maybe 1,500 to 1,700 meters. Kerbin trees are much more hardy, apparently.
The Kerb-2 summit itself is at 2,520.64 meters above sea level, similar to Mt. St. Helens in Washington. But given the scale of Kerbals (44% the height of a human), Kerb-2 would be comparable to an Earth summit of around 5,600 meters, in the range of Kilimanjaro. K2 in the Himalayas, on which Kerb-2 is vaguely modeled, is second only to Everest and stands at 8,611 meters.
Kerb-2 is a piece of cake to climb as compared to a monster like K2.
Having reached the summit, I can measure back to where I landed and the so-called “summit” region is about 5 km in diameter.
There is supposed to be at least one more discoverable; Snowcone Glacier. According to the modder of Science Arkive, the region exists in the code but experiments cannot be performed there for extra science. He doesn’t reveal where that is.
Again, I use the Aeris-K3 to fly there and have three Mk16-R Parachutes for the landing. Even though this is where a Space Center used to be, I’m not expecting a runway.
It takes two hours of flight time and about half the available fuel to arrive.
Just west of the KSP1 Space Center was a very tall set of mountains with a very high peak, over 6,000 meters. Kerbin in KSP2 has a lot of mountain regions, much more than in KSP1, but those mountains don’t seem as high. And this mountain near Kamchatka, while distinctive compared to the rest of the mountain terrain, does not seem as high.
Derrie Kerman will need to climb it to be sure.
The ground at 1,450 meters above sea level has scattered chunks of snow. This represents the lower limit of the “snow line”. On Earth, the snow line, of course, varies based on climactic conditions but is generally at 4,500 meters. This scales Kerbin at around 33%, at least in this context. Higher up, there is more snow but it is not a distinct line, at least not on this mountain.
About 150 meters up the slope from the base of the snow line, the science collection region changes from Mountains to Kerb-2 Summit, even though I am far from the summit itself. There is still a lot of climbing ahead.
There is no upper tree line, again not on this mountain, as there is a tall pine near the summit on a saddle. On Earth, the tree line would be somewhere between 3,500 and 4,000 meters above sea level, scaled here to maybe 1,500 to 1,700 meters. Kerbin trees are much more hardy, apparently.
The Kerb-2 summit itself is at 2,520.64 meters above sea level, similar to Mt. St. Helens in Washington. But given the scale of Kerbals (44% the height of a human), Kerb-2 would be comparable to an Earth summit of around 5,600 meters, in the range of Kilimanjaro. K2 in the Himalayas, on which Kerb-2 is vaguely modeled, is second only to Everest and stands at 8,611 meters.
Kerb-2 is a piece of cake to climb as compared to a monster like K2.
Having reached the summit, I can measure back to where I landed and the so-called “summit” region is about 5 km in diameter.
There is supposed to be at least one more discoverable; Snowcone Glacier. According to the modder of Science Arkive, the region exists in the code but experiments cannot be performed there for extra science. He doesn’t reveal where that is.
