I couldn’t remember the last time I had seen a recepta biological, so I made sure to take some pictures of this recepta conditivus green variation. One downside to Elite having no animal life or liquid water or other oceans on landable planets is that we don't get to see what creatures that ate these kinds of plants would look like. Playing the much more ambitious (and glitchy) game No Man's Sky has spoiled space gamers a bit with the game's ambitious takes on alien (and repetitive) ecosystems. These recepta pictures were taken on Ood Flaae XL-D d12-0 3 b.

This aleoida coronamus turquoise biological was larger than most I’d seen. While the base of the leaves -- or perhaps they are fronds -- is turqoise, the purple upper parts are what stood out to me and prompted me to take a picture. Taken on Ood Flaae XS-G c24-0 2 c.

These fungoida gelata red were in small pockets on the dark side of this moon. Most fungoida I find are the reed-like variety I’ve shown images of before. This is the first of this type I can recall seeing. The SRV’s night vision mode helped me find them in the dark. I’m looking forward to returning to the bubble in a couple of months to try and engineer my suits to get night vision added to them, among other upgrades. Taken on Ood Flaae XS-G c24-0 2 c.

The rings across the blue-green sky gave a change of scenery from driving about scanning fonticulua. Taken on Ood Flaae ZG-D d12-2 1 a.

Week 13 of the expedition ran from April 6th through the 12th.