Landing on ice cap biome with v basic jet

[Telesto]

When I try to land at the ice biome all I get is a sheet of white so I cant see the ground approaching. Its a similar problem with most biomes; theres little or no textures to give any kind of perspective of altitude. I have my Graphics settings tuned right up (980 ti), is it jus me or are there very few ground features?

[Rays of Apollo]

If your graphics are turned up, you should get a shadow...

More importantly, use your instruments. The vertical speed indicator should be enough to help you land softly.

[XLjedi]

Maybe try aiming for the shaded/night side and turn on your landing lights?

[crossed]

Kerbnet can help a lot with landings, showing altitude and stuff, especially if you're on the dark side, never tried it with planes though..

[Docsprock]

Landing on the ice caps are difficult, just like in reality. The other terrains have lots of texture to see as you get close.

Like Mr TehNoms said, you can orient your landing to where the ground shadow is in front of you, or like Spinjack says, use landing lights. Landing lights work in daytime too.

[Zorlond]

I find bringing my own light source helps. Small landing gear (the second set you get) has built-in lights, but even if you're on the very basic toothpick landing gear, you could slap a spotlight on the nose of your ship (assuming you've got that tech, it's pretty easy to get). Ice may just be a bright and bland sheet of white, but even it reacts to additional light being shone on it.

[vaga1]

I use Bon Voyage mod and send a rover while I do other things to get my science. Sometimes I put a scientist in the rover to get the most science.

[Telesto]

Thank you all. Loads of good and varied ideas. Nice :)

[Hitori]

Snow and ice is by nature hard to measure by eye, one tip i can give you is to use 3 perfectly distanced/angled spotlights pointing down, these will by the overlapping reflections help warn/indicate your distance from the ground (a optical measuring tool simular to what the army/navy use).
I use this on all my landers regardless of destination to help avoid a crash when i fail to measure the distance by eye alone (even if the graphics is 3D does not mean our depth perception will work like in real life without a VR headset or stereoscopic vision).