For a moment, they just stood there.
Expecting something to happen.
They had heard of the crystal striders that Pioneer I had run into on their first planetary excursion. Perhaps they would run into some native alien life as well.
The ground was of neon colors, flashy and bright, reflecting the exotic content of the soil and the bedrock. The sky was the cosmos. The light from the stars of the Milky Way Galaxy and of the entire universe painted a magnificent image.
But it also meant that this planet was highly unlikely to be terraformable.
Some planets were terraformable, others were not.
It depended on several factors, but the most important ones were the composition of the planet, atmosphere, mass, gravity, and so on and so forth. This planet had too much gravity, completely disqualifying it from becoming a potential home for Gaian Civilization.
