I've been casually looking for a small planet to circumnavigate and I've now got my candidate.
It's Eol Prou FB-I b25-50 1, a stones throw from Colonia and I discovered it when coming back from a trip to one of those nebulas out there.
I did start one of these a long time a ago but gave up after a while, I think I chose a particularly large planet before so it was going to take up too much time. Anyway, I recently accompanied Alec Turner for a few parts of his recent circumnavigation and it's got me excited to have another shot at this.
It's a funny looking rock and I liked it straight away:
It has a radius of 353km so it's bigger than I was looking for having a circumference of about 2217km.
This will be a leisurely wheels on the ground trip as I like to take in the scenery so I'm normally going at 10 - 15 km/h but on the relatively smooth surfaces I have seen 30+ km/h.
This is my start point crater, and there's a mound in the middle to aim for.
I'm all set to go, my T7 has been dismissed and I'm feeling excited. My heading will be 90 degrees, which at this point is the direction where the star is.
Final check of systems and we're off.
It look longer than I thought it would to get out of that crater, it's bigger than it looks. That's the start mound in the distance.
The first session went well but I've only had time to clear the crater, here's the planet view of the position.
It's Eol Prou FB-I b25-50 1, a stones throw from Colonia and I discovered it when coming back from a trip to one of those nebulas out there.
I did start one of these a long time a ago but gave up after a while, I think I chose a particularly large planet before so it was going to take up too much time. Anyway, I recently accompanied Alec Turner for a few parts of his recent circumnavigation and it's got me excited to have another shot at this.
It's a funny looking rock and I liked it straight away:
It has a radius of 353km so it's bigger than I was looking for having a circumference of about 2217km.
This will be a leisurely wheels on the ground trip as I like to take in the scenery so I'm normally going at 10 - 15 km/h but on the relatively smooth surfaces I have seen 30+ km/h.
This is my start point crater, and there's a mound in the middle to aim for.
I'm all set to go, my T7 has been dismissed and I'm feeling excited. My heading will be 90 degrees, which at this point is the direction where the star is.
Final check of systems and we're off.
It look longer than I thought it would to get out of that crater, it's bigger than it looks. That's the start mound in the distance.
The first session went well but I've only had time to clear the crater, here's the planet view of the position.
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