Today was nighttime:
(galaxy acted as my most trusted directional waypoint today since i was so close to north pole)
Another crater, really liked this one:
And this one, really liked crater wall:
Then at one point noticed wave scanner began showing upper lines, and i knew upper lines meant some sort of civilization POIs. Stopped my SRV, and scouted ahead with camera. Yes, there was a ship ahead:
It was NPC Federal Dropship. Pilot was sleeping, and searched her faction was 7653ly away inside the bubble (distance to nearest deep space port is ~3500ly ). My second contact with civilization in this trip:
(didnt want to wake her so continued my journey)
After that arrived to crater i marked with "2" in previous surface map. Darkness doesn't help but no sign of different surface, must be just surface map reflections:
(took also closeup inside the crater - nothing different)
Deceided to skip "3" and just continue ahead. Just as i climbed out of the crater, noticed another upper lines at my wave scanner. Investigated, and it turned out to be crashed SLF figher:
Then not long after that another civilization POI, this time data point:
(and there were 2 other data points after that - not grouped together, but there were some distance between them)
At one point terrain started to get more mountainous:
Ended here - it was long drive today:
End of day 22 surface map:
(next goal is craters/cliffs at south, this should also get me out of icy bits)
Day 22 was 220km (total is 2047km). Crazy day with all the civilization signs. Also my exploration rank % rised to Ranger 27% today - started this trip with Ranger 26% and it needed 2047km to rise to 27%