P.S. I'm gonna be drawing the new comic live on twitch in about 10 hours from this post (gotta sleep first) if you're interested!
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I know it's just a webcomic but the KSP player in me hates how the engine bell sticks down past the landing legs
It's an engine skirt. It lets the lander move around on the surface at low thrust. Think hovercraft.
Hey, landing on the bell is better than those flimsy landing legs. Especially if you are tight on science and not unlocked the moving ones!
Maybe those are retractable ones that are just in motion already?
To be fair it's also blowing a sandcastle over on the moon. Where there's no atmosphere...
I think expanding exhaust gasses from the engine plume dissipating against the surface could do that if the castle was close enough. But then again, I'm not a physicist, just a KSP player
Buzz Aldrin saw the flag from Apollo 11 get knocked over by expanding exhaust gasses https://www.nasa.gov/history/alsj/ApolloFlags-Condition.html