Suggest a nice crater/valley moon to visit? Ideally with mist maybe?

Ziljan

Ziljan
Raj Matheo said:
I arrived at BECRUX last night 352ly from SOL. I have only explored 1 moon so far but it has a number of deep ray craters and misty low lands.
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That's not a moon, that's a large asteroid!

Very odd how it's round on one side and warped on the other. As if the body had originally formed and cooled as a sphere, and then had one side warped by an impact of some sort possibly altering the composition of that half of the planet so that it could support a more potato like structure.
 

Raj Matheo

Raj Matheo
Indeed not a moon at all, it's not the most potato like object I have seen but I don't often see the misty low areas. It is also in binary with another rock just as oddly shaped but without the mist.
 

Edelgard von Rhein

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I would recommend looking for a rocky ice world in close proximity to a gas giant: these can have stunning canyons, ridges and mountains. For an example, see EACTAINDS FN-W C1-11 A 2 B ( https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=236381&page=3 ) but I do not know of any currently in the bubble as I have not yet returned from Distant Worlds to go looking. Rocky ice worlds are the least common type of landable, so you may have to search a bit but they are totally worth it!
 

Ziggy Stardust

Ziggy Stardust
There's one Big ass misty crater at Beagle Point :)

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NeilF

NeilF
I've spent a couple of days trying to find some nice (small) ravines to fly down, and not really found any so far :(

As a rule the best bet seems to be ice worlds, but even those with loads of ravines/cracks, when you get down to them their huge/large so not really any challenge (fun) to fly along in your ship (eg: Viper).
 

Ziggy Stardust

Ziggy Stardust
I have found that small rocky moons have the best chance of finding interesting surfaces. The bigger planets mostly seem to have some hilly terrain with craters, with the bigger craters having their own little landscape going on inside them.
 

NeilF

NeilF
Ziggy Stardust said:
I have found that small rocky moons have the best chance of finding interesting surfaces. The bigger planets mostly seem to have some hilly terrain with craters, with the bigger craters having their own little landscape going on inside them.
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I'll go out looking for small rockys then to see if I can find some nice tight valleys to fly down :)
 

Ziljan

Ziljan
Closer to home (53,250 LY from me atm), Uranus's moon Ariel has some pretty amazing misty canyons:

[video=youtube_share;0aelxiA2WeQ]http://youtu.be/0aelxiA2WeQ[/video]
 
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