Body Exclusion zone hit !

[Nort]

Body Exclusion zone hit !
Despite my efforts to find any good answer to this message, I am posting this question.
Is this warning message, just a warning? Or is it an obligatory do not land on this planet?
On first encountering the message I turned away !
Later as it seems to be encountered more and more, I want to push through and land. As yet I have not been able to land on a planet that presents the warning.
I am in Horizons, so planet landing is in game. I have planet landing assist installed.
Are some planets out of bounds, if so is there any map indication of this? To save me the time and not try.
Or am I doing something wrong?
Approaching a planet with a station on the ground is easy and works nice and efficiently.
Yet an uninhabited planet is for the most part a very long process to get close too, then this ( Body Exclusion zone hit ) message put's an invisible wall that I can not get passed.
Please include the obvious in any answer, do not assume I know the obvious.

 

[Siobhan]

It just means it's a planet with an atmosphere, and as you may know, atmospheric landing is not (yet?) supported by the game.

Basically in the system map, if a body has a blue arc around it, you can land, if not, you can't... And yeah, I know that seems counter-intuitive. The arc kinda looks like an atmosphere limit.

Anyway, it's a hard limit for now.

 

[Nort]

Thank you,

 

[kail]

Bodies that you can land on have a blue outline on the System map. Previous answer didn't load until I posted.

 

[Orvidius]

Yep, the exclusion zone is basically an invisible wall that won't let you get any closer to the planet.

 

[Ashnak]

There are a few exceptions to that rule - atmosphereless bodies that can't be landed on. Those may be permit locked, and show uup with a red (instead of blue) arc.

Also (grumble....) lots of bodies (including all those yellow moons) with 0.00 atmospheric pressure. Yep, also not landable.

 

[Nort]

So Elite Dangerous Horizons hasn't got planetary landing in it as advertised. !
You just get Moon landing ! And most that I have seen are spherical dust blobs.
!

 

[Orvidius]

There are plenty of landable planets. They're just all airless.

 

[Ashnak]

Yeah, right.

 

[Rooster Podunk]

Nort, it is pretty simple to identify the landables...



Yes planetary landings are in the game. No not all planets are landable, aka StarTrek.

 

[Burke]

I was wondering the other day, if it was possible to hit the exclusion zone of a star using heat sinks. For science.

 

[AkenBosch]

You just get Moon landing ! And most that I have seen are spherical dust blobs.

Oh, the irony. A Moon landing is exactly one of the things you don't get with Horizons.

 

[varonica]

I was wondering the other day, if it was possible to hit the exclusion zone of a star using heat sinks. For science.

You can run into it any time you want, heat sinks are not obligatory, you may want a cool running ship though jusy to be sure, but it's easy enough to get away without being blown up.